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pensive, a. (n.)|ˈpɛnsɪv|
Forms: 4–6 pensyf, (-yfe, -yff), 5–6 pensif, -cyf; 5–6 pensyve, (5 pensiwe, 6 -seue, 6–7 Sc. pansiue), 6– pensive.
[a. F. pensif, -ive (11th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. penser to think: see -ive.]
1. Full of thought; plunged in thought; thoughtful, meditative, musing; reflective: often with some tinge of seriousness or melancholy (cf. 3).
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. viii. 133 Ful pensyf in myn herte; For [1377 of] þat I sauh slepynge, ȝif hit so be mihte. c1440Partonope 3853 Pensyfe thaughtfull alle day sytteth he. 1563B. Googe Eglogs vi. (Arb.) 54 With pensyfe heart full fraight with thoughts, I fled from thence away. 1639N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman i. 33 He had a greater feare of those who were pensive as Brutus. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, The sweet expression of her pensive face. 1863I. Williams Baptistery ii. xxxi. (1874) 172 Lost in Bewild'rings of his pensive mind.
†2. Thoughtful or meditative as to plans and future events. Passing into
b. Full of anxious thought or foreboding; anxious, apprehensive. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Petrus) 320 Symon and Nero ay Ar full pensyve how þai may Confownd þe. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 138 He sholde be Purveyaunt and Pensyfe of thynges that may come aftyrwarde. 1477Earl Rivers Dictes 109 He abode in his hous right pensyf and ful of thoughte how he might escape fro this perille. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Cor. vii. 54, I..was so pensyfe..leste this infeccion myghte crepe among you. 1606Holland Sueton. 128 What pensive care he tooke, as touching his health and safetie. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 15, I owe not Misery the service to meet it, by pensive fears.
3. ‘Sorrowfully thoughtful, sorrowful; mournfully serious; melancholy’ (J.); gloomy, sad.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxx. (Theodera) 129, I pray þe, sir, þu tel me quhy Þu art nov pensiwe & mad, & wont wes to be blith & glad. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 206 Suche as be pensyff make hem glad and murye. 1596Drayton Legends ii. 583 The heavie burthen of my pensive brest. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq., Apol. viii. §12 For the cherishing and comforting the innocent, serious and pensive. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 64 She sat down weary and pensive at so sad a disappointment. 1838Lytton Alice i. ii, Seeing her mother's emotion, [she] kissed away the tears from the pensive eyes. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xcvi. 3 When to a love long cold some pensive pity recals us.
†b. Const. of, for, or infin.: Sorry. Obs.
c1450Merlin i. 6 My suster is so hevy and pensif of our mys-happes. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. (1807) II. 137 King Henrie doubtlesse was right pensive for his [Becket's] death. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 32 Pensiue still To doe whats good, but frolike to doe ill.
4. transf. Of things: Suggestive of, associated with, or implying thought, anxiety, or melancholy.
†b. Carefully considered (obs.).
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xxi. 34 With the other pensife cares of this present life. a1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 539 Sine to counsall thay passit all beliue. Considderit weill the sentence was pensiue. 1633May Hen. II, vi. 439 They..thither pensive sackcloth brought. 1685Lady Russell in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 344, I have now left the country and the pensive quiet of it. a1732Gay Fables ii. vii. 46 Would that avert one pensive hour? 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. ii. 207 Pensive Twilight in her dusky car. 1830Scott Demonol. viii. 246 How have I sate while piped the pensive wind. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun (Tauchn.) II. iv. 45 Adam..never knew the shade of pensive beauty which Eden won from his expulsion.
5. absol. as n. Pensive manner or mood.
1775C. Johnston Pilgrim 122 The Archbishop and he have parted not the best pleased with each other, which has put my friend a little in the pensives. a1814Manœuvring ii. i. in New Brit. Theatre II. 89 Fold your arms as if you were musing—no, not so—more on the pensive.
Hence † ˈpensived a., nonce-wd., ? rendered pensive or sad, saddened.
1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 219 These trophies of affections hot, Of pensiv'd and subdued desires the tender. |