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precisive, a. rare.|prɪˈsaɪsɪv|
[f. L. præcīs-, ppl. stem of præcīdĕre (see precise a.) + -ive.]
1. That cuts off, separates, or defines one (person or thing) from another or others, as in precisive abstraction: see quot. 1725. (app. for prescissive.)
1679T. Puller Moder. Ch. Eng. (1843) 232 At other times our church moderates her censures,..using a medicinal censure, before a precisive. 1725Watts Logic i. vi. §9 This Act of Abstraction is..either Precisive or Negative. Precisive Abstraction is when we consider those Things apart which cannot really exist apart; as when we consider a Mode without considering its Substance and Subject.
2. Characterized by precision or exactitude.
1807Gilson Serm. Pract. Subj. 110 Daniel..foretold with the greatest precisive openness the exact time of our Saviour's coming. 1897Daily News 22 May 5/1 [He] has made at least one definite, precisive, and particular charge. |