forgetive

for·ge·tive

(fôr′jĭ-tĭv)

adj. Archaic

Capable of imagining or inventing.

[Possibly from forge + -tive (as in inventive or creative).]

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forgetive

(ˈfɔːdʒəˌtɪv)

adj

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) poetic imaginative and inventive

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for•ge•tive

(ˈfɔr dʒɪ tɪv, ˈfoʊr-)

adj. Archaic.

inventive; creative.

[1590–1600; perhaps b. forge¹ and creative]

References in periodicals archive ?

"It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and crudy vapors which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit" (4.4.95-100).

"How like a god": Shakespeare and Early Modern Apprehension

Sack "ascends me into the brain," Falstaff tells us, "dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which deliver'd o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit" (2 Henry IV 4.3.97-102).