interpretativeadj.
/ɪnˈtəːprɪteɪtɪv/ 1. Having the character, quality, or function of interpreting; serving to set forth the meaning (of something); explanatory, expository.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective]
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explicatory1606
expository1628
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luciferous1648
omnilucent1651
explaining?1683
illustratorya1734
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clarificatory1945
FYI1973
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [adjective]
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1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xcvii. 171 b The true diuinitee..also is deuided in two partes: for the one is Propheticall, the other Interpretatiue.
a1638 J. Mede Reverence Gods House i, in Wks. (1672) ii. 344 That interpretative expression used in the New Testament of the Lord's descent upon Mount Sinai.
1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 98 These are not mere Allusions to the Sacrifices of the Old Testament, but they are interpretative of them.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. The rigour of interpretative lexicography requires that the explanation, and the word explained, should be always reciprocal.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. iii. 80 The grand power of poetry is its interpretative power.
1882 Harper's Mag. June 57 One of the new interpretative composers.
1884 American 7 337 All that is fairly implied in it as interpretative of the Constitution.
2. Deduced or deducible by interpretation or inference; inferential, constructive, implicit, virtual. archaic or Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adjective]
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sidelinga1500
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1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr xii. 349 This is accounted an interpretatiue periury.
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. vi. §8 Though concurrence of Examples, and either an expresse or interpretative approbation of them..bee equivalent to a Rule.
a1659 R. Brownrig 65 Serm. (1674) I. xxvii. 352 'Tis an implicit, virtual, interpretative Atheism and Denial.
1798 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases U.S. & Pennsylvania 2 350 Constructive, or interpretative treasons, must be the dread and scourge of any nation that allows them.
1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent ii. vii. 204 I will call simple assent material certitude; or, to use a still more apposite term for it, interpretative certitude.
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