performatoryadj.n.

1949 Philosophy 24 90 There are..performatory sentences like ‘I name this ship Shamrock’.

1949 Mind 58 359 To make a promise is to perform an act in which language is involved as an integral part... Mr. J. L. Austin distinguishes this as the ‘performatory’ use of language. I am indebted to him for this point.

1967 Listener 2 Feb. 162/1 The listener..may have expected a more substantial work than was due to be played... If he perseveres with it, what sounded prefatory can come to sound performatory.

1996 Q. Rev. Biol. 71 295/2 Part III presents five fundamental systems (the basic orienting system, the eating and drinking systems, the locomotory system, the performatory action system, and the expressive action system).

1955 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: How to do Things with Words (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 394) f. 53 A few typical utterances of the type known as performatories or performatives.

1958 R. S. Hartman in R. Klibansky Philos. in Mid-Cent. III. 8 Positivists have fulfilled the rôle assigned to them, and in various ways analyzed such expressions..as imperatives.., optatives.., performatories.., and the like.

1951 Aristotelian Soc. Suppl. Vol. 25 207 Group I [sc. the verbs ‘advise’, ‘order’, ‘command’, ‘tell’] can be used performatorily, but Group II [sc. the verbs ‘persuade’, ‘induce’, ‘cause’, ‘get’] cannot.

1962 Philos. Rev. 71 24 Hence Descartes could use the performatorily interpreted cogito insight to argue that the human soul is a res cogitans, but not to argue that it is essentially a willing or feeling being.

1997 Rev. Metaphysics 51 22 By contrast, the counter-positions are performatorily inconsistent.