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plurative, a.|ˈplʊərətɪv|
[ad. L. plūrātīvus adj. (Gell.) plural, f. L. plūs, plūr- more, after grammatical terms in -ātīvus, as nōminātīvus, comparātīvus, indicātīvus, etc. So obs. F. pluratif (E. Deschamps in Godef.).]
†1. Gram. = plural a. 1. Obs. rare.
1585Foxe Serm. on 2 Cor. v. 6 This nominative (Nos) in the plurative number, is not here to be expounded after the stile of Rome.
2. Logic. (See quots.)
1849W. Thomson Laws of Thought (ed. 2) ii. 174 The judgment—‘Most men are prejudiced’ cannot..be considered as particular, for it implies not only that some men, but more than the half of mankind are prejudiced. These are termed plurative judgments. 1867Atwater Elem. Logic 102 Plurative Judgments are those in which more than half, but not all of the subject is taken. 1870Jevons Elem. Logic xxii. 191 The name of Plurative propositions has been proposed for all those which give a distinct idea of the fraction or number of the subject involved in the assertion. |