Obs. [f. CONTENT v. + -IVE: cf. inventive.] Fitted to content; satisfying.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 80. What a brutish thing it is, howe short lasting, and but a minute contentiue.
1599. Breton, A Farewell, Wks. (Grosart), II. 62/2. There is no sicknesse, no sore as that growes of sorrow, no better meane to cure it then the company of a contentive friend.
1627–77. Feltham, Resolves, II. lxvii. 300. They shall find it a more contentive life than idleness.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, xiii. § 2. 102. The … true contentive Obiect of the Soule of Man, is God.
