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adj. - Productive or creative.

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  • Rowley '-- issued in thick succession from this wonderful, and, to use the Shakspearean word in a twofold sense,' forgetive 'brain.
  • Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and...
  • "It ascends me into the brain ... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue,...
  • It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery...
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