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Definition of Cunctative
1. a. Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.
Definition of Cunctative
1. Adjective. (rare) Inclined to delay ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cunctative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunctative
Literary usage of Cunctative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... brooked neither contradiction nor demur, and was as precipitate in action as
he had been cunctative in deliberation. These characteristics are apparent ..."
2. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1880)
"After the arrival of the deputies in France, the cunctative policy inspired by
the Lord Treasurer was continued by England. ..."
3. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"... amused himself with receiving accounts of the proceedings in the Court of
Chancery,—blessing Heaven " that he himself was inclined to the cunctative. ..."
4. The Boston Review (1862)
"He reads the secret thoughts of Fabius,* as that cunctative Roman scrawls his
marginal apostilles on each despatch; he pries into all the stratagems of ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis ( Bacon (1824)
"For I confess I have somewhat of the cunctative ; and I am of opinion, that
whosoever is not wiser upon advice than upon the sudden, the same man was no ..."
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