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quantitive, a.|ˈkwɒntɪtɪv|
[f. quantity + -ive: cf. qualitive.]
= quantitative.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 159/2 Neither equal, nor certain, nor quantitive, nor qualitative. 1669[see quantative]. 1827G. S. Faber Expiat. Sacrif. 148 By what intelligible process can we estimate the quantitive proportions of two dissimilar oblations? 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1553 He can make no other distinction between them..than a quantitive one. 1958T. G. E. Powell Celts 182 It cannot be argued here whether it was prestige, or quantitive representation, that won for it eventually an exclusive position. 1959Times 9 Sept. 16/7 The Four No Trump bid is regarded more often than not as quantitive.
Hence ˈquantitively adv. = quantitatively.
1827G. S. Faber Expiat. Sacrif. 149 The only mode..in which things dissimilar can be quantitively compared. 1871B. Stewart Heat §402 To estimate either temperature or hardness quantitively. |