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opiniative, a. Now rare.|əʊˈpɪnɪətɪv|
[In obs. F. opiniatif, -ive (15th c. in Godef.); also It. opiniativo (in Florio 1598). See opiniate a.]
1. = opinative 1, opinionative 2.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1584) 371 Ye are too too much obstinate, and in the maner of disputation extremely opiniative. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 416 It maketh men idle, and yet opiniatiue, and well conceited of themselues. 1690Locke Toleration ii. Wks. 1727 II. 268 They..grow so opiniative and so stiff in their Prejudice. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 220 Lysias is only Opiniative because he wants Sense. 1835Fraser's Mag. XII. 466 He may be suspicious or opiniative. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. The. II. 94 There is something here manifestly beyond the play of opiniative despotism.
†2. = opinative 2, opinionative 1. Obs.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. in Archaica (1815) II. 88 Opiniative and prejudicate assertions, that strive for a needless and dangerous innovation.
Hence oˈpiniatively adv.; oˈpiniativeness.
1600F. Walker Sp. Mandeville 36 b, Trusting opiniatiuely to their owne wit. 1611Cotgr., Opiniastreté, opiniatiuenesse. a1618Raleigh Arts of Empire xiv. (1658) 34 The first obstacle to good Counsel is Pertinacy or Opiniativeness. 1715tr. à Kempis' Chr. Exerc. iii. xviii. 154 To speak..with Opiniativeness is the part of one that is a stranger to Wisdom. 1807Earl Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. III. 363, I am..not surprised with the opiniativeness of Lord Grenville. |