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generative, a.|ˈdʒɛnərətɪv|
[f. generate v. + -ive. Cf. F. génératif.]
1. Pertaining to generation or procreation; having the power or function of producing offspring.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxvii. 72 The sowle hath power vegetatif and generatif for to conseruen his kynde and multyplyen. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 6 Neither is there any place..where that generatiue vertue doth more abound..then in the wide Ocean. 1628Gaule Pract. Theories (1629) 76 Spirits are not vsually generatiue, nor are Virgines pregnant. 1660Pepys Diary 14 Dec., We..had very good discourse concerning insects and their having a generative faculty as well as other Creatures. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 519 Complaints of the generative organs. 1871–2H. Macmillan True Vine iv. 167 By preventing plants from reproducing, leaves and wood are produced instead of generative products. 1880Günther Fishes 158 In the Cyclostomes the generative organ is single.
fig.c1400Apol. Loll. 55 Wen þei of þer office are gederers of euerlastyng lif, how euen þey are þus misusing þis generatif strengþe. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. l. §1 Not onely the Word, but the Sacraments, both hauing generatiue force and vertue. 1816Coleridge Statesm. Man. (Bohn) 353 This state of mind..is a mere balance or compromise of the two powers, not that living and generative interpenetration of both which would give being to essential religion. 1883Congregationalist Mar. 190 That word is creative, generative, begets a new life which supplants and expels the old.
2. a. Having the power or function of generating (in senses 2 and 3 of the vb.); productive.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. §36 These causes, (being in their proper nature most generatiue of sedition, and of all sorts of ciuill furies). 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxviii. 294 Feare is a Multiplying and Generative Passion, ever producing motions of its owne Nature. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. ii. 6 What Meats are generative of Wind? 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 21 We will affirm then that the effective or generative cause of stones, is a certain mineral virtue. 1799Med. Jrnl. I. 495 This agent is known to be the generative cause of several diseases of the bones. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. Index 533 The people..yearn for fuller knowledge of the rules of right, as the generative principles of social peace.
b. Linguistics. Able to generate (in sense 2 d of the vb.); concerned with generation (2 c); generative grammar: see quots. 1964 and 1965.
1959Word XV. 233 A generative grammar, as Chomsky has shown, may be conveniently arranged in the form of a series of equation-like rules. 1960Language XXXVI. 360 (title) The place of intonation in a generative grammar of English. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. ii. 13 A (generative) grammar of a language is a theory or set of statements which tells us in a formal and explicit way which strings of the basic elements of the language are permitted. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. iv. 60 A generative grammar is based upon certain fundamental kernel sentences, out of which the language builds up its elaborate structure by various techniques of permutation, replacement, addition and deletion. 1965N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax i. 8 By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Ling. iv. 139 Any linguistic description which has this capacity of describing actual utterances as members of a larger class of potential utterances, is said to be generative.
Hence ˈgeneratively adv., by way of generation; ˈgenerativeness.
1643R. O. Man's Mort. vi. 41 That which is immortall cannot generatively proceed from that which is mortall. 1727Bailey vol. II, Generativeness, generative or begetting Quality or Faculty. |