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promissive, a. Now rare.|prəʊˈmɪsɪv|
[ad. late L. prōmissīv-us promising, applied to the future tense: see promise and -ive.]
Conveying, implying, or having the character of a promise; promissory.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 24 She amazed them with a kind of promissive disputation. 1650Hobbes De Corp. Pol. 186 All Declarations..concerning Future Actions and Omissions, are either Promissive, as ‘I will do, or not do’; or Provisive, As for example, ‘If this be done or not done, this will follow’; or Imperative, as ‘Do this, or do it not’. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 356 God's Wil reveled in his Word is either promissive or preceptive. a1703Burkitt On N.T. Matt. xi. 12 Which words are both restrictive and promissive. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. vi. 119 Instead..of making a separate mood for every auxiliary verb, and introducing moods Interrogative, Optative, Promissive, Hortative, Precative, &c. we have exhibited such only as are obviously distinct. 1850Proc. Philol. Soc. IV. 186 Shall (2, 3) and will (1) [are called] promissive. |