单词 | forgetive |
释义 | forgetive, a.|ˈfɔədʒɪtɪv| [? f. forge v.1 + -tive.] A Shakespearian word, of uncertain formation and meaning. Commonly taken as a derivative of forge v.1, and hence used by writers of the 19th c. for: Apt at ‘forging’, inventive, creative.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 107 A good Sherris-Sack..makes it [the braine] apprehensiue, quicke, forgetive, full of nimble, fierie, and delectable shapes. 1800Malone Life Dryden Pr. Wks. I. i. 382 Corinna's forgetive imagination. 1814Cary Dante, Purg. xvii. 14 O quick and forgetive power! that sometimes dost So rob us of ourselves. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. iv. 127 Her temperament..strangely quick, sensitive, apprehensive, forgetive. |

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