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Interpretative  adj.  
1.
Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography."
2.
According to interpretation; constructive. "An interpretative siding with heresies."






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"Interpretative" Quotes from Famous Books



... specific ability to sing with distinction. Moreover, the singer must have definite musical ability, natural and developed by study. He must thoroughly comprehend rhythm, melody, and harmony in order that his attention may not be distracted from interpretative values to ignoble necessities of time and tune. It is not possible to sing Mozart, not to say Beethoven and Wagner, without acquaintance with the vocabulary and grammar of the wonderful language ...
— The Renaissance of the Vocal Art • Edmund Myer

... privileged class. To this belongs the mind of creative genius that can formulate in tones the universal passions, the eternal verities of the soul. In it may also be numbered those gifted beings whose interpretative powers peculiarly adapt them to spread abroad the utterances of genius. Precisely in the same way religion has its prophets and its ministers. Music, as well as religion, is meant for everyone, ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore

... penmanship painful; but the present Editor, while conceding that his letters lack the charm of style of COWPER'S, and the vividness and passion of BYRON'S, finds in them, even the hastiest, matter of rarest biographic and interpretative value. He was not a great sentencemaker; in a way prided himself that his letters were so (intentionally) poor as sure to be counted unworthy of publication; and altogether had the prejudices of an earlier day against the giving of letters ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... relations at another? Is it not the most vital possible way to learn facts to learn them in their relations?"—the answer that would be generally made reveals that most teachers are pessimists, that they have very small faith in what can be expected of the youngest pupils. The theory is that interpretative minds must not be expected of them. Some of us find it very hard to believe as little as this, in any child. Most children have such an incorrigible tendency for putting things together that they even put them together wrong rather than not put them together at all. Under existing educational ...
— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee

... of the letters which stood for the various secret and benevolent societies of the country. I. O. G. T. (Independent Order of Good Templars), for example, was made into "I Often Get Tight (i.e. drunk)," which was considered quite a triumph of juvenile interpretative skill. Another effort was in the way of explaining the college degrees: B.A. "Big Ape," M.A. "Matured Ape," B.D. "Bull-Dog," LL.D. "Long-Legged Devil," etc. Still another class is represented ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain


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