Deliberative

Definition of Deliberative

De`lib´er`a`tive
a.1.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.
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.

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