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Definition of Provocatives
1. provocative [n] - See also: provocative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provocatives
Literary usage of Provocatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bacchus: An Essay on the Nature, Causes, Effects, and Cure of Intemperance by Ralph Barnes Grindrod, Charles Alfred Lee (1855)
"Horace, in one of his Satires, thus adverts to the provocatives to drinking used
by the Romans :— 1. The use of Condiments or provocatives, either in eating ..."
2. The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy by Pennsylvania Prison Society (1860)
"provocatives TO CRIME.—It is estimated by a late Philadelphia Grand Jury, that
there are about Jive thousand places in the city at which strong drink can be ..."
3. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"The provocatives of Desire are, in the first place, the actual wants or deficiencies
of the system^ and secondly, the experience of pleasure. ..."
4. History of the War with Mexico by Horatio Oliver Ladd (1883)
"... Appointment of Slidell—The Nueces and Rio Grande—provocatives to war—General
Taylor's dispatches—Haste of the Administration—Declarations of war. ..."
5. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1868)
"The provocatives of Desire are, in the first place, the actual wants or deficiencies
of the system, and secondly, the experience of pleasure. ..."
6. Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics by Alexander Bain (1868)
"The provocatives of Desire are, in the first place, the actual wants or deficiencies
of the system, and secondly, the experience of pleasure. ..."
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