- (a.) Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
- (n.) A discourse in which a question is discussed or weighed and examined.
- (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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