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† ˈredditive a. and n. Obs.
[ad. L. redditīvus: see prec. and -ive.]
A. adj. That answers to something already said; corresponding, correlative.
1614T. Adams Fatal Banquet iv. Wks. 1861 I. 216 This sad sequel is, if not a relative, yet a redditive demonstration of their misery. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispatch't 296 The redditive part of the testimony. 1659O. Walker Oratory 20 Conjunctions, Discretive, Redditive, Conditional. [1721in Bailey, and hence in later Dicts.]
B. n. Gram. A word which answers to one already used; a correlative.
1590J. Stockwood Rules Constr. 2 The word that asketh a question, and the word that answereth vnto the same question, the which they call the interrogatiue and his redditiue. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 767 The causal Quoniam, and the redditive thereto Ideo. 1668Wilkins Real Char. iii. iv. 312 The former being Comparative General, the other the Redditive of it. |