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explicative, a. and n.|ˈɛksplɪkeɪtɪv|
[ad. L. explicātīv-us, f. explicāre: see explicate v.]
A. adj.
†1. Tending to unfold, or to unfold itself; expansive. In quot. fig. Obs.
1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xxiv. 43 How contrary it is to Christianity, and the Nature of explicative Love.
2. a. Having the function of explaining; explanatory, interpretative. † Of a person: Explicit, affording explanation. b. Logic. Of a proposition or judgement: That merely explains what is implied in the subject; = essential. †c. Gram. (See quot. 1824).
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. ix. 123 Here is forbidden..an anger with deliberation, and purpose of revenge, this being explicative and additionall to the precept forbidding murder. 1725Watts Logic ii. ii. §5 The term..is called explicative; for it only explains the subject. 1757Herald (1758) I. No. 4. 62, I shall be particularly explicative in the course of these publications. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 216 An explicative sentence is, when a thing is said to be or not to be.. in a direct manner. 1852Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. 273 In Mathematics the whole Science..is only the evolution of a potential knowledge into an actual, and its procedure is thus merely explicative. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. i. 207 The new judgments..are all explicative or analytic. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. x. 393 These are for Mr. Carlyle, the vital, the explicative facts in Cromwell's career and character.
B. n. An explicative term.
1775Adair Amer. Ind. 77 By the first name [green ear of corn], the Indians, as an explicative, term their passover. 1864Bowen Logic v. 144 With regard to Explicatives.
Hence ˈexplicatively adv., in an explanatory manner.
1775Adair Amer. Ind. 22 They often call the bleak north⁓wind, explicatively, very evil, and accursed. |