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单词 contentive
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contentiveadj.1

Etymology: < content v. + -ive suffix: compare inventive.
Obsolete.
Fitted to content; satisfying.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > [adjective] > contenting or satisfying
payinga1500
satisfying1536
contentful1542
contenting1548
contentive1593
well-contenting1605
satiating1611
filling1626
contentsome1632
comfortable1769
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 80 What a brutish thing it is, howe short lasting, and but a minute contentiue.
1597 N. Breton Farewell in Wil of Wit f. 76 The company of a contentiue freende.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xiii. §2. 192 The..true contentive Obiect of the Soule of Man, is God.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 329 They shall find it a more contentive life then idleness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

contentiveadj.2

Etymology: < French contentif, -ive, that contains, retains (in modern French only in the surgical use), < Latin type *contentīvus , < continēre to contain v.: see -ive suffix and compare retentive.
Obsolete.
Characterized by containing, holding together, maintaining, etc. In Surgery see quot. 1882.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [adjective] > supporting by holding together
contentive1677
the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [adjective] > types of bandage
contentive1739
obvolvent1857
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 443 His good wil is the effective, contentive and provisive Virtue.
1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xxxvii. 142 I did not yet remove the contentive Compress.
1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Contentive, the same as Retentive, applied to bandages which retain the lips of a wound, or the ends of fractured bones in apposition.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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