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determinative, a. and n.|dɪˈtɜːmɪnətɪv|
[a. F. déterminatif, -ive (15th c. in Godef. Suppl.), f. ppl. stem of L. dētermināre to determine: see -ive.]
A. adj.
1. a. Characterized by determining, deciding, or fixing; serving or tending to determine or decide.
1655Bramhall Agt. Hobbes (J.), That individual action..cannot proceed from the special influence and determinative power of a just cause. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 23 This efficacious concurse, as it determines and applies the second cause to act, is..termed determinative. 1682Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 205 The day appointed for pronouncing the determinative sentence in the cause. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. I. iii. vi. 120 The determinative Voice of the Head of the Church. 1865Holland Plain T. v. 183 Determinative of the character of life. 1884Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 360 The underlying conception, the determinative principle or idea.
†b. Characterized by being determined or fixed.
a1677Hale Contempl., Christ Crucif. (R.), Our Lord Christ's body could not be longer detained under the power of death, then the determinative time of three days.
2. a. Serving to limit or fix the extent, or the specific kind or character of anything: said of attributes or marks added with this purpose. Cf. B. 2.
1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 310 The one..is Common or Determinable properly by the other, and the other is Particular or Determinative of it. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. vi. vi. 385 If..we wou'd needs add some exteriour marks, more declaratory and determinative of..Virtue and Pleasure. 1725Watts Logic ii. ii. §5 The term..is determinative and limits the subject to a particular part of its extension. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. v. 99 The Egyptians do not seem to have got rid of their determinative pictures. 1881― Anthropol. vii. 171 These examples..give some idea of the principles of its [Chinese writing] sound-characters and keys or determinative signs.
b. Gram. determinative adjective, determinative pronoun, etc. (see quots.); determinative compound = tatpurusha.
1921E. Sapir Lang. vi. 135 The words of the typical suffixing languages (Turkish, Eskimo, Nootka) are ‘determinative’ formations, each added element determining the form of the whole anew. 1924H. E. Palmer Gram. Spoken Eng. ii. 24 To group with the pronouns all determinative adjectives..shortening the term to determinatives. 1933Bloomfield Lang. xiv. 235 One can..distinguish..determinative (attributive or subordinative) compounds (Sanskrit tatpurusha). 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts 486 The, a, and every are exceptional among the determinative pronouns in requiring stated heads.
B. n.
1. A determinative agent; that which determines, decides, or impels in a given direction.
1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. xxvii. 521 A right of action is not merely considered as an instrument or means of redress but as a restraint or determinative from wrong.
2. That which serves to determine or define the character or quality of something else.
a. In hieroglyphic writing, an ideographic sign annexed to a word phonetically represented, for the purpose of defining its signification. Thus in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics there were generic determinatives which indicated the class of notions to which the word belonged, determinatives of number, etc.
b. In science of language, a spoken syllable having an analogous function in some languages; also, a determinative or demonstrative word.
1862Marsh Eng. Lang. iv. 67 Very many of the native Mono-syllables are mere Determinatives. 1862Rawlinson Anc. Mon. I. iv. 81 The ‘determinative’ of a god—the sign, that is, which marks that the name of a god is about to follow. 1875P. Le P. Renouf Egyptian Gram. 11 Plural nouns and adjectives usually..take the sign {vddd} or 111 after them as a determinative of plurality. 1881Tylor Anthropol. vii. 173 Even where they spelt words by their sounds, they had a remarkable way of adding what are called determinatives, which are pictures to confirm or explain the spelt word. 1883Sayce Fresh Light Anc. Mon. i. 18 Determinatives..characters which have no phonetic value, but which determine the class to which the word they accompany belongs. |