Dawson, Geol

Hist. of Plants, p. 133. never put his hand to any reproductive Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 331. etching, not even after one of his own paintings. Reproductive cells, in bot . See reproduction , 3 ( a ). -Reproductive faculty, in the psychology of Sir William Hamilton, the faculty of a ociation of ideas, by virtue of which one suggests a definite other, but not including the faculty of apprehending an idea a second time. Reproductive function of order n . See function . - Repro ductive imagination, the elementary faculty by virtue of which one idea calls up another, of which memory and imagination, as popularly understood, are special developments. See imagination , 1. Philosophers have divided imagination into two - what they call the reproductive and the productive. By the former they mean imagination considered simply as reexhibit i on, representing the objects presented by perception-that is, exhibiting them without addition or retrenchment, or any change in the relations which they reciprocally held when first made known to us through sense .