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Webster 1913 Edition
Precisive
Pre-ci′sive
,Adj.
Cutting off;
(Logic)
exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as,
precisive
censure; precisive
abstraction. I. Watts.
Webster 1828 Edition
Precisive
PRECI'SIVE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
precisive
precisive
English
Adjective
precisive (comparative more precisive, superlative most precisive)
- Cutting off.
- (logic) Exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose.
- precisive censure
- precisive abstraction
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References
- precisive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913