† connexiveadj.
Obsolete.
1. Conditional, hypothetical (i.e. said of a proposition whose parts or clauses are connected together as antecedent and consequent).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [adjective] > conditional or hypothetical
conditional1532
connexive1587
hypothetical1588
connex1589
connexed1628
substitutive1656
future contingent1659
hypothetica1680
theoretic1789
conjunctivea1856
counterfactual1946
contrafactual1950
1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Hivv Concluded in a connexiue or condicionall sillogisme.
1605 A. Wotton Answere Popish Pamphlet 6 A compound Syllogisme is either Connexiue, or Disiunctiue.
c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) ii. xii. §2 The conjunction..copulative, as and; Connexive, as if; Disjunctive, as or; or discretive, as howbeit.
1725 I. Watts Logick 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.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [adjective]
connexive1645
conjunctivea1667
annexive1736
conjunctional1871
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 23 Brought in by this connexive particle Therfore.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 312 Those two kinds of Connexive Particles which serve for the contexture of sentence with sentence, are called Adverbs and Conjunctions.
1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric II. iii. v. 420 The general name of connexive, I shall..apply indiscriminately to them all.
3.
a. Tending to connect; connective.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [adjective] > connecting
associating1646
connective1656
copulant1658
connexive1776
annectent1821
annectant1825
syndetic1891
syndetical1891
1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vii. 227 Of all the connexive circumstances, the most powerful is interest.
b. connexive tissue n. = connective tissue.
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > connective tissue > [noun]
cellular membrane1729
cellular tissue1754
areolar tissue1818
connective tissue1839
connexive tissue1854
conjunctive tissue1856–8
connective1883
1854 J. S. Bushnan in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. (c1865) II. 12/1 The..name ‘connexive tissue’ has been proposed for it [areolar tissue].
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