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terminative, a.|ˈtɜːmɪneɪtɪv, -ətɪv|
[ad. L. type *terminātīvus: see terminate v. and -ative. Cf. F. terminatif.]
Having the function of terminating (in various senses).
1. Forming a boundary or limit, bounding (? obs.); forming the termination or extremity of something.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 51 The water of Thammyse..was somme tyme as a cause terminative of men of Kente, of Este Saxones, West Saxones, and of men of the Marches. Ibid. 109 Mersee in Englische sowndethe as a see terminatiue [Higd. terminans mare], for hit disterminate[d] oon realme from an other. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 36 Some colour, which should be the terminative colour of the perspicuous and opaque.
†2.
a. Constituting an end, final, ultimate; esp. constituting the ultimate object or end of some action (nearly = objective a. 1). Obs.
1624F. White Repl. Fisher 224 Neither is the Picture or Image..the terminatiue object of Loue..or Worship. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace ix. 195 No duties or ordinances (which are but the wayes or means by which we come to Christ) are or ought to be central and terminative to the soul. 1694R. Burthogge Reason & Nat. Spirits 244 That the Soul is but a Mediate Subject while it is in the Body, and not a Terminative. 1701Norris Ideal World i. v. 235 There can be no act of the Divine understanding above them [the Divine Ideas], but what must of necessity suppose them as the terminative forms of it.
†b. Directed to something as ultimate object.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. ii. vi. §27 To take off this trifle of worship Relative and worship Terminative. 1679C. Nesse Antid. agst. Popery 38 Their worship being not..terminative in the creature.
3. Bringing or coming to an end; finishing, concluding; conclusive; in Path. = terminal a. 4 b.
a1680Charnock Sinfulness & Cure Th. Sel. Wks. (1849) 109 Thoughts are inchoative in the fancy, consummative in the understanding, terminative in all the other faculties. 1813–21Bentham Ontology ii. §9 Terminating or terminative motions. 1887T. Hardy Woodlanders i, The interior, as seen through the window, caused him to draw up with a terminative air and watch. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 417 Cases of..old standing terminative dementia.
4. Gram.
a. Denoting destination or direction towards.
1860Trans. Philol. Soc. 1857 34 The declension of the personal pronouns [in the Tushi language] is as follows..Nominative..Genitive..Comitative..Terminative. 1903Amer. Anthropologist Jan.–Mar. 13 Besides a general locative some of the most frequently occurring [suffixes] are inessive, superessive, introessive, ablative, and terminative.
b. Applied to an aspect of a verb which denotes a completed action, or its completion.
1911Kruisinga & Erades Eng. Gram. (1953) I. ii. vii. 257 Verbs of a terminative character, that is such as express the final stage of an activity. 1924O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. xx. 273 Lindroth for the first class uses the term ‘successive’ (with the subdivisions ‘terminative’ and ‘resultative’.) 1930B. Trnka Syntax Eng. Verb 32 A differentiation between two series of aspects, the ingressive, continuative and terminative (resultative) on the one hand, and the imperfective and perfective, on the other... The former, common to both Slavonic and Germanic languages, express the ingressive, continuative and terminative stages of the verbal action. 1963F. T. Visser Hist. Syntax Eng. Lang. III. ii. 1372 There are three kinds [of verbs of aspect]: (1) of egressive or terminative aspect. 1984Eng. World-Wide IV. 208 The terminative markers gaan and kom, which occur only with motion verbs in this perfective function, follow the main verb. |