Meanings
adjectiveconsiderative (comparative more considerative, superlative most considerative)
comparative more considerative · superlative most considerative
- archaicConsiderate; careful; thoughtful.
[W]here ere I come, / I loue to be conſideratiue; and, 'tis true, / I haue, at my free houres, thought vpon / Some certaine Goods, vnto the State of Venice, / VVhich I do call my Cautions: […]
1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, signature I2, recto
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