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decisive, a. (n.)|dɪˈsaɪsɪv|
[ad. med.L. dēcīsīv-us, f. dēcīs-, ppl. stem of dēcīdĕre: see -ive. Cf. F. décisif, -ive (1413 in Godef. Suppl.).]
1. Having the quality of deciding or determining (a question, contest, etc.); conclusive, determinative.
1611Cotgr., Decisif, decisiue, deciding, determining, fit or able to end a controuersie. 1647Crashaw Poems 147 That sure decisive dart. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 255 Notions..unsupported by decisive experiments. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. vii. 260 Tisamenus was slain in the decisive battle. 1892L. W. Cave in Law Times Rep. LXVII. 199/2 The case..is really decisive of the point raised.
2. Characterized by decision; unhesitating, resolute, determined; = decided 2.
1736Butler Anal. ii. vii. 355 To determine at once with a decisive air. 1858Max Müller Chips (1880) III. iii. 68 The age..was not an age of decisive thought or decisive action. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. v. 20 The serjeant, a decisive man, ordered that the sound should not be answered.
3. That is beyond question or doubt, that cannot be mistaken; hence often = decided 1.
1794S. Williams Vermont 160 Operate with a decisive influence to give them new force. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. ii. 38 A decisive leaning toward what is most simple and intelligible. 1880L. Stephen Pope iii. 71 The sustained vivacity and emphasis of the style give it [Pope's Iliad] a decisive superiority over its rivals.
¶ ellipt. as n.
a1734North Exam. i. ii. §64 (1740) 63 The Roman Catholic Peers were so many, as nearly if not wholly made a Decisive, for they went altogether as one Man. |