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Webster 1913 Edition
Animadversive
Anˊi-mad-ver′sive
,Adj.
Having the power of perceiving; percipient.
[Archaic]
Glanvill.
I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the
animadversive
faculty. Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Animadversive
ANIMADVER'SIVE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
animadversive
animadversive
English
Adjective
animadversive (not comparable)
- (archaic) Having the ability to perceive; percipient.
- 1642, Henry More, “The Immortal Soul”, in A platonick song of the soul:
- If soul were the material form of the body, it would be no better than the lower "Mundane sprite," which has no animadversive power either.
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- Critical or characterized by disapproval.
- 1843, "City Election," Punch, vol. 5, p. 181:
- The disgraceful conduct of the Returning Officer for the City of London Election has been the subject of animadversive conversation in our own particular circle.
- 1863, George Pound, "Reading Branch: President's Address," British Medical Journal, vol. 2, p. 33:
- The conduct of the medical practioner was denounced by one of the jurors as "mercenary"; and a special verdict, animadversive of the practice (if it be a practice) was entered.
- 1843, "City Election," Punch, vol. 5, p. 181: