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单词 estimative
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estimativeadj.

Brit. /ˈɛstᵻmətɪv/, U.S. /ˈɛstəˌmeɪdɪv/
Etymology: < late Latin aestimātīvus, < aestimāre : see estimate v. and -ive suffix.
1. Adapted for estimating; having the power of estimating.
a. estimative faculty, estimative virtue, etc.: the faculty of ‘judgement’ (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > faculty or instrument of
meta1200
judgementa1250
assayc1394
estimation1398
estimative faculty1398
criterion1647
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xi. 55 The vertue estimatiue and the ymagynatyf ben comyn to vs and to other beest.
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. D.iii In the middest sel or ventrikle [of the brain] there is founded..the Cogitatiue or estimatiue vertue.
1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. sig. B4 To..make my estimatiue power beleiue I haue a proiect worthy to imploy.
1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (1752) 37 The fancy both estimative and cogitative.
a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 693 The errour is not in the eye, but in the estimative faculty.
b. estimative art [after Greek στοχαστικὴ τέχνη] .
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1859 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 567/2 Mr. Combe..and others acknowledge that applied phrenology is an estimative art only.
2.
a. Based upon estimation or approximate calculation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [adjective]
valuative1566
valueda1616
estimativea1640
valuational1887
appraisive1899
evaluative1927
a1640 C. Wandesford Bk. Instr. to Son (1777) §83 A Jewel of that unvaluable Richness, not estimative but intrinsicall.
1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 151 It anticipates the time estimative but 10. min.
b. Imputed, due to estimation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [adjective]
conjecturative?1541
conjectural1553
opinionate1553
roving1577
opiniative1593
opinionative1610
guessive1628
estimative1659
stochastic1662
stochasticala1688
doxastic1794
divinatorya1856
divinatorial1860
conjectory1884
1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 346 This he delivered as a Sum Estimative.

Derivatives

ˈestimatively adv. Obsolete in an estimative manner; by way of esteem or respect.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [adverb]
worshipfully1357
worshipfulc1426
appreciatively1593
estimatively1633
esteemingly1653
appreciatingly1836
appreciatorily1885
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 1) 1099 Our spirituall parents are more to be loved Æstimativè; our naturall, more intensivè.
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