单词 | estimative |
释义 | estimativeadj. 1. Adapted for estimating; having the power of estimating. 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] . ΚΠ 1859 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 567/2 Mr. Combe..and others acknowledge that applied phrenology is an estimative art only. 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1398 |
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