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This rarely attested word (there is one other instance in Middle English, half a century later) adds a superfluous adjectival -ous suffix. The process is similar process to that of pensantus.
a.
pensive, preoccupied:
(
c.1334; MS: s.xivm
)(Gereberd is refused access to a certain mysterious book:) mult pensifs (var. (T: s.xiv3/4) pensivous) estoit, et tant come cel livre lui estoit denié, taunt plus le desira
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pensivous (s.xiv3/4)