plausive, a. Now rare.
(ˈplɔːsɪv)
[f. L. plaus-, ppl. stem of plaudĕre (see plaud v.) + -ive.]
1. Having the quality of applauding; expressive of approval by or as by applause; applausive.
| 1600 Heywood If you know not me Wks. 1874 I. 202 Those plausiue shouts, which giue you entertaine. 1621 R. Brathwait Nat. Embassie (1877) 7 When Pandora had made this plausiue Oration. 1753 L. M. Accomplished Woman II. 4 They who have a good voice sing where there is an echo, with a better grace, because the plausive sound makes them more sprightly. 1819 Wordsw. Malham Cove 8 No mightier work had gained the plausive smile Of all-beholding Phoebus! 1870 Emerson Soc. & Solit., Work & Days Wks. (Bohn) III. 69 The young graduate..would..find the air faintly echoing with plausive academic thunders. |
† 2. a. = plausible 1 or 2. Obs.
| 1601 Shakes. All's Well i. ii. 53 His plausiue words He scatter'd not in eares, but grafted them To grow there and to beare. 1602 ― Ham. i. iv. 30 By some habit, that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners. |
† b. = plausible 3. Obs.
| 1601 Shakes. All's Well iv. i. 29 What shall I say I haue done? It must bee a very plausiue inuention that carries it. 1767 Antiq. in Ann. Reg. 145/1 The plausive arguments of false reasoners. 1820 R. Polwhele Introd. Lavington's Enthus. Meth. & Papists C j, All this under the plausive pretext of Toleration. |