单词 | completive |
释义 | completiveadj. Having the attribute of completing; serving for completion (of). completive tense (Harris): = perfect adj. 11a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [adjective] consummating1582 teleiotical1601 complemental1602 crowning1604 consummative1614 consummatory1623 completing1656 completory1659 telesiurgic1662 completive1677 finishing1705 teleiotic1705 accompletive1826 finial1888 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 75 Virtue is termed by Basil..completive of Nature. 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. vii. 128 The Middle Tenses (which express Time as extended and passing) and the Perfect or Completive, which express its Completion or End. 1862 F. Hall Hindu Canons Dram. (1865) 11 The articulations are the initial..the speculative, and the completive. 1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie I. xxii. 314 Notes explanatory and completive. 1887 W. S. Pratt in W. Gladden Parish Problems 454 In no sense preparatory, but rather confirmatory or completive. Derivatives comˈpletively adv. in a completive manner, by way of completion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [adverb] offc1440 consummatively1614 completively1651 perfectively1818 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 317 Remission is but a Relative change, and Baptism I confess a moral instrument of conferring it completively. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1651 |
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