Word Meanings - SATISFACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Satisfactory. Satisfactive discernment of fish. Sir T. Browne.

SATISFACTORY
1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
SATISFACTIVE
Satisfactory. Satisfactive discernment of fish. Sir T. Browne.
DISCERNMENT
1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness;
DISSATISFACTORY
Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult