DELIBERATIVE, adjective 1. Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by mutual discussion and examination; as, the legislature is a deliberative body. 2. Having a right or power to deliberate or discuss. In councils, the bishops have a deliberative voice. 3. Apt or disposed to consider. DELIBERATIVE, noun A discourse in which a question is discussed or weighed and examined. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
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