a. [f. QUANTITY + -IVE: cf. qualitive.] = QUANTITATIVE.

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1656.  Stanley, Hist. Philos., v. (1701), 159/2. Neither equal, nor certain, nor quantitive, nor qualitative.

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1669.  [see QUANTATIVE].

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1827.  G. S. Faber, Expiat. Sacrif., 148. By what intelligible process can we estimate the quantitive proportions of two dissimilar oblations?

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1882–3.  Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 1553. He can make no other distinction between them … than a quantitive one.

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  Hence Quantitively adv. = QUANTITATIVELY.

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1827.  G. S. Faber, Expiat. Sacrif., 149. The only mode … in which things dissimilar can be quantitively compared.

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1871.  B. Stewart, Heat, § 402. To estimate either temperature or hardness quantitively.

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