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processive, a. rare.|prəʊˈsɛsɪv|
[In sense 1, ad. F. processif, -ive litigious. In sense 2, f. L. prōcess-, ppl. stem of prōcēdĕre to proceed: cf. med.L. processīv-us (a 1250 in Albertus Magnus).]
†1. Of the nature of a process or summons (see process n. 7 b); serving to initiate legal proceedings. Obs.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf ii. 242 They fell to Law about it, whose bills, and answers, together with other writings, processiue, justificatiue..and infinite other the like..came to [etc.].
2. Having the quality of proceeding or going forward; progressive.
1819Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 378 There can be no galaxy in poetry, because it is language, ergo processive—ergo every the smallest star must be seen singly. 1850Mrs. Browning Seraphim ii. 499 His own Processive harmony..Is sweeping in a choral triumph by. 1866Reader 20 Oct. 880 Recognise in its processive and changing phases the varied animal forms, rising higher and still higher in the complexity of their structure up to the advent of Man himself. |