a. [f. as prec. + -ATIVE.]
1. Disposed to write; given or addicted to writing. Now rare.
1736. Pope, Lett. to Swift, 17 Aug. Increase of years makes men more talkative but less writative.
1755. Chesterf., Lett., 19 Dec. Deaf people are commonly as frivolously writative.
1920. Sat. Rev., 17 Jan., 55. Our ‘writative’ contemporaries.
2. Marked by inclination or addiction to writing.
1746. Burke, in Leadbeater Papers (1862), II. 72. I always distinguish between a man’s talkative and writative character.
1768. Woman of Honor, III. 102. I was in a fine writative vein.
