Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Animadversive \An`i*mad*ver"sive\, a.
   Having the power of perceiving; percipient. [Archaic]
   --Glanvill.

         I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas
         glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty.
                                                  --Coleridge.