[f. BABBLE v. + -ATIVE. Cf. talkative.] Given to babbling; prattling, prating, loquacious.

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1583.  Philotimus (Halliw.). He was … neither to bablative withe flattery, nor to whust with morositie.

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a. 1624.  Bp. M. Smyth, Serm. (1632), 265. Sad with the graue, babblatiue with praters.

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1829.  Southey, Sir T. More (1831), I. 350. Professors of the arts babblative and scribblative.

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1838.  Carlyle, in Froude, Life in Lond., v. I. 139. Sterling particularly argumentative, babblative, and … unpleasant.

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