Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Deliberative

Deliberative , adjective

[Latin deliberativus: compare French délibératif.]

Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
A consummate work of deliberative wisdom. — Bancroft
The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. — Hallam

Deliberative , noun

1.
A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. — Bacon
2.
A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.