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separative, a. (n.)|ˈsɛpərətɪv|
[a. F. séparatif (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) or directly ad. late L. sēparātīvus, f. L. sēparā-re: see separate v. and -ive.]
1. Tending to separate or to cause separation.
1592Timme Ten Eng. Lepers A 4 b, A Leprosie is..a fearefull, lothsome, contagious and separative maladie. 1645Rutherford Trial & Tri. Faith iii. 15 Grace is separative, and singleth out one of many. 1661Boyle Scept. Chemist i. 99 That..eminent Experiment of the Separative Virtue of extream Cold, that was made..in Nova Zembla. a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) II. 364 We ought now..to inquire how it comes that every object hath this separative power over the particles of light; how it imbibes one colour, while it copiously reflects another? 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Imperf. Sympathies, The spirit of the synagogue is essentially separative. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 55 The uniting influence was stronger than the separative. 1893Pulsford Loyalty to Christ II. 231 The fond, comfortable feeling..that we are better than others, is..separative alike from God and man.
†b. absol. as n. Obs.
1650T. Hubbert Pill Formality 88 It is such a separative, that it divorceth the pre-reputation of all thy actions.
2. Gram.
†a. Applied to certain functions of the genitive (see quot.)
b. Of conjunctions: Alternative, disjunctive.
1845Jelf Gram. Grk. Lang. §530 II. 156 Separative Genitive... All verbs expressing any notion of removal, separation, departure, rising from, may have a genitive of the point whence these began. 1888Kennedy Revised Lat. Primer (1900) §177 Co-ordinative Conjunctions are Connective:..Separative.
3. Nat. Hist. Of a mark or character: Affording ground for establishing a separate species or group.
1865Reader 23 Dec. 716 This learned and popular author stands out firmly and solidly for an insurmountable, unsurpassable, separative distinction between man and brute.
Hence ˈseparatively adv., ˈseparativeness.
1789Trifler No. 41. 528 Individuals should separatively collect from observation and religion the art of life best calculated for their own real felicity. 1901G. Matheson in Expositor Aug. 107 To the mind of the Jew, the man who of all others emphasized the holiness of God, the distinctive feature of this holiness was its separativeness. |