† ˈpensative, a. Obs.
Also erron. -itive.
[ad. Sp. pensativo ‘pensive, full of thought, or of care’ (Minsheu 1599), f. pensar to think: see pensive and -ative.]
Full of thought, pensive, anxious.
| 1574 Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 317 We see no other thing, but that the idle woman goeth alwayes pensitiue. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. lxiv. 130 b, After that he understoode how small a fleete there was left to defend his countrie withall, he could not bee but verye pensatiue. 1612 Shelton Quix. I. Pref. 9 My friend seeing me so pensative, demanded of me the Reason of my musing. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. v. 201 Sancho rested much confounded and pensative of that which he heard they say, that Books of Chivalry only contained follies and lies. |