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combinative, a.|ˈkɒmbɪneɪtɪv|
[f. combīnāt- ppl. stem of L. combīnāre to combine + -ive.]
1. Having the faculty of combination, combining.
1855Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) I. 11 A mind..combinative or inventive enough to provide remedies. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. i. 6 The combinative powers of his own imagination.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of combination; cumulative.
1867Clark Russell in Broadway Mag. Dec. 286 Those combinative excellences which constitute not the smallest charm of ‘Kavanagh’.
3. Phonology. Applied to sound-changes which are effected through a combination of influences: opp. isolative.
1888Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds 17 Another important distinction is that of isolative and combinative... Combinative changes imply two sounds in juxtaposition, which modify each other in various ways.
4. Chess. Applied to a player of chess or a game using ‘combinations’ (see combination 5 c).
1934in F. D. Yates 101 Best Games of Chess 13 Yates never lost his power of combination and his game against Vidmar..has been described..as ‘The finest combinative game played since the war’. 1950R. N. Coles Chess-player's Week-end Bk. 41 Alexander Alekhin..was the greatest combinative master of modern times. |