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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Deliberative

De-lib'er-a-tive, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. deliberativus, It. & Sp. deliberativo, Fr. délibératif.] Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. “A consummate work of deliberative wisdom.” Bancroft.

The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam.

De-lib’er-a-tive, n.

noun

n. 1. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. 2. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.