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volitive, a. and n.|ˈvɒlɪtɪv|
Also 7 volutive.
[ad. med. or mod.L. *volitivus (whence It., Sp. volitivo), or f. volit-ion + -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the will; volitional.
1660Jer. Taylor Ductor i. i. rule 2 §4 The Volitive or chusing faculty cannot [take the name of conscience], but the intellectual may. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. (1677) 29 The Command that is given by the volitive Faculty of the Soul. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles ii. 359 The ordinate and actual power of God..which some terme Gods Volutive Power. 1799Sir H. Davy in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. 139 The perceptive and volitive powers depend..on the constant supply of..phosoxydated blood to the nervous and muscular systems. 1811–31Bentham Logic Wks. 1843 VIII. 280 The volitional, or volitive faculty, or, in one word, the will. 1878W. Maccall tr. Letourneau's Biol. 386 In effect the deep cells of the cortical layers are motory, or rather volitive.
2. Originating in, arising from, the will.
1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. ii. 32 So that no man ever sinned by meer Action as such, whether Vital, Intellectual, or Volitive.
3. Performed deliberately or with express intention; designed, deliberate.
1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. ii. 321 [The clergy's] intentional barbarity and cruelty, their volitive despotism and oppression, their willed persecution..in reference to Luther and the like.
4. Gram. Expressive of a wish or desire; desiderative.
1846Monier Williams Elem. Gram. Sanscrit Lang. vi. 129 Certain roots..take a desiderative form, without exactly yielding a volitive signification. 1864Webster s.v., A volitive proposition. 1894W. G. Hale in Classical Rev. Apr. 167/2 The Greek..Subjunctives of Will (volitive) and..of Anticipation (anticipatory or prospective).
B. n. A desiderative verb, mood, etc.
a1813Murray Hist. European Lang. (1823) II. 280 Volitives or desideratives..are formed by using the future consignificative sa with the doubled verb. 1894W. G. Hale in Classical Rev. Apr. 167/2 The volitives never have ἄν. |