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† coˈnnexive, a. Obs.
[ad. L. co(n)nexīv-us serving to connect; f. co(n)nex- ppl. stem (see connex v.) + -ive.]
1. Conditional, hypothetical (i.e. said of a proposition whose parts or clauses are connected together as antecedent and consequent).
1584Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 56 Concluded in a connexiue or condicionall sillogisme. 1605A. Wotton Answ. Pop. Articles 6 A compound Syllogisme is either Connexiue, or Disiunctiue. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 33 The conjunction..copulative, as and; connexive, as if; disjunctive, as or; or discretive, as howbeit. 1725Watts Logic iii. ii. §5 A connexive Syllogism. This some have called copulative; but it does by no means require the major to be a copulative nor a compound Proposition.
2. Conjunctive.
1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1738 I. 229 Brought in by this connexive particle Therfore. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 312 Those two kinds of Connexive Particles which serve for the contexture of sentence with sentence, are called Adverbs and Conjunctions. 1776G. Campbell Philos. Rhet. (1801) II. 363 The general name of Connexive I shall apply indiscriminately to them all.
3. Tending to connect; connective.
1776G. Campbell Philos. Rhet. (1801) I. 188 Of all the connexive circumstances the most powerful is interest.
b. connexive tissue: = connective tissue.
1854Bushnan in Circ. Sc. (c. 1865) II. 12/1 The..name ‘connexive tissue’ has been proposed for it [areolar tissue]. |