forgetive

The very brain of England must have become more “quick, nimble, and forgetive,” before the time of leisure came.

With an understanding fertile, subtle, expansive, “quick, forgetive, apprehensive,” beyond all living precedent, few traces of it will perhaps remain.

“Antony and Cleopatra,” iv, 14, 9. quick, forgetive.

Being quick and forgetive in his mental operations, even while completing his toilet, he had formed a plan for an attack upon the kingdom of darkness lying around him.

Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and understanding.