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defiˈnitional, a.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a definition.
1869Athenæum 11 Sept. 329 The definitional rule judiciously laid down by Mr. Hazlitt, that a proverb should have a figurative sense, an inner sense or an approximate sense. 1883Encycl. Brit. XX. 49/2 Two distinct presentations are necessary to the comparison..but we cannot begin with such definitional differentiation. 1948L. Spitzer Linguistics iii. 113 There is in the phrase objet pour les yeux something definitional and intellectual. 1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics ii. 23 These are definitional statements, which will be amplified in what follows. 1970Economics VIII. 126 We now have Y = C + I + X - M; or alternatively, Y + M = C + I + X which signifies a definitional equality between total supply and total demand.
Hence defiˈnitionally adv., by means of a definition; as a definition.
1940W. V. Quine Math. Logic 100 Only a single occurrence of ϕ appears in our definitionally abbreviated notations. 1947Mind LVI. 74, f might be a definitionally constructed, property determining a subclass of a class determined by a more abstract or less complex property. |