affinitiven.adj.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 24 No contract of any new affinitiue or alliance.

1647 F. Lodowyck Common Writing 2 Many Radixes have an affinity or relation in their signification, one to the other, and that foure-fold... These three sorts of affinitives, namely, the first, third, and fourth, are to be sub-distinguished.

1783 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (ed. 2) 63 The first part of the appellation Maiden, which is from the Celtic Maidan, with its affinitives, signifying strong, chief, great, distinguished.

1892 W. K. Moorehead Primitive Man in Ohio xvi. 198 The osteological affinitives of these people resembling those of the stone-grave people of Tennessee so closely that there is little doubt that the builders of Hopewell's Earthwork are but an advanced offshoot.

1921 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. Oct. 405 The last suggestion has received much favorable consideration from many taxonomists. The writer's anatomical studies in these suggested affinitives have not progressed far enough to warrant any conclusive statement.

1997 S. Carter Global Agric. Marketing Managem. ii. 53 The countries of Southern Africa are bound together by cultural and political affinitives which have in the past enabled them to intervene to solve internal conflicts in individual countries.

1651 L. Willan Astræa sig. Aiij By the Reflection of your affinitive eminence in Vertue and Beauty, It hath presumed to assume a Being more communicable.

1710 E. Curll White Crow 15 Tho' I act the part of so wicked a Parent, their affinitive Relation to me, as Children, is not destroy'd, but remains still the same.

?1790 A. Walker Anal. Course Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 6) 11 Bodies in the act of delivering phlogiston to the air, or any other affinitive menstruum.

1853 F. S. Cozzens Prismatics 118 Of fresh milk—and a baby, And butter, and cheese, And a thousand affinitive blessings like these.

1901 W. H. Thomas Amer. Negro ix. 368 The lesson taught him is, that while inequalities occur in every variety of life, like and unlike seek affinitive groups.

1946 Brit. Weekly 5 Sept. 302 Its..extension..is simply a matter of time and affinitive conditions.

1992 J. Silverberg & J. P. Gray Aggression & Peacefulness in Humans & Other Primates 118 Dominance contributes strongly to the structure of affinitive (mutually attractive) relations in papionine societies.

1745 J. Finch Free & Impartial Thoughts Sovereignty of God 10 The Sense in which these Gentlemen are pleased to understand and expound many Texts of the Bible relating to this and other affinitive Points.

1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life II. 65 I am more induced to introduce this remarkable circumstance here, as it is in some degree affinitive to my narration relative to Mr. Foote and myself.

1877 J. W. Watkins tr. H. W. J. Thiersch On Christian Commonw. Pref. p. vii It may be that, in the variety of aspect from which the subject can be regarded,some of the historical facts, or even cognate axioms of other affinitive sciences, may seem to require correction.

1880 J. Hatton Three Recruits I. i. i. 10 The kitten playing with that ball of yellow thread somehow struck Oliver North as affinitive to his own position.

1996 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 29 May a11 This is the lesson we have learned from the cases most affinitive to a secession witnessed in stable democracies.