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segregative, a.|ˈsɛgrɪgeɪtɪv|
[ad. med.L. sēgregātīvus, f. L. sēgregāre: see segregate v.]
1. Having the power or effect of separating.
†a. Gram. and Logic. A general designation for adversative (or † discretive) and disjunctive conjunctions. Hence of a proposition, Consisting of members joined by a segregative conjunction.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. ii. vii. 95 b, The segregative axiome is that whose conjunction is segregative, and there⁓fore is fittest to dispose disagreeable arguments which must be severed. The segregative is either disjunctive or discretive. 1626A. Wotton Art Logick ii. vii. 142 That word is a conjunction Segregatiue, which severeth or divideth the parts of speech each from other.
b. Having the property of separating the elements or constituent parts of matter.
1674T. Flatman Belly God 95 The Vintner..With segregative things as Pigeons eggs Strait purifies, and takes away the dregs. 1858Sat. Rev. 20 Nov. 502 Iron-stone nodules..are..probably the result of a segregative power.
2. Of persons: Given to separation or disunion. Of an individual: Unsociable.
1685H. More Refl. Baxter 24, I leave him..to consider what a pleasant thing it is to Flesh and Blood to be a Segregative Rabboni. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ix. 158 The influences of barbarism, beyond narrow limits, are prevailingly segregative, a wild race..breaks up into mutually jealous and hostile divisions. 1888Mrs. H. Sandford T. Poole & Fr. I. 157 Coleridge was as social as Wordsworth was segregative in his tendencies. |