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denominative, a. and n.|dɪˈnɒmɪnətɪv|
[ad. L. dēnōminātīv-us, f. ppl. stem of dēnōmināre: see -ive. Cf. F. dénominatif (Catholicon, 15th c.).]
A. adj.
1. Having the quality or function of naming; characterized by giving a name to something.
1614T. Jackson Comment. Apost. Creede iii. 62 The same name [Cepha] giuen vnto Simon..must imply no more then a denominatiue reference vnto the rocke. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 151 The petty stream that runs thereby was denominative of the place. 1826A. E. Bray De Foix xviii. (1884) 209 High-spiced wines, that the medical monk thus fenced with the denominative armour of physic.
b. Of a word or term: Having the function of naming, denominating, or describing, as an attribute; characterized by denomination.
a1638Mede Disc. ii. Wks. (1672) i. 6 The first we may call his Personal, the other his Denominative or Participated Name. 1674Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 9 A Name..not distinctive with respect unto His Personality, but denominative with respect unto His Work. 1843Mill Logic i. ii. §5 Connotative names have hence been also called denominative, because the subject which they denote is denominated by, or receives a name from, the attribute which they connote.
†2. Having or called by a distinctive name; constituting a denomination (sense 3). Obs. rare.
a1677Cocker Arith. (1678) 29 The least denominative part of time is a minute, the greatest integer being a year.
3. Gram. Formed or derived from a noun.[Cf. Priscian Inst. iv. i. ‘Denominativa sunt, id est, a nominibus derivantur’. The L. word was used by early translators of Aristotle to render Gr. παρώνυµος derivative.] 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) v, Denominativus, adj. Denominative, that is, derived of a noun, as from dens comes dentatus. 1839tr. Gesenius' Hebr. Gram. §85 Denominative nouns. 1. Such are all nouns which are formed immediately from another noun. 1875Whitney Life Lang. vii. 131 Such denominative verbs, as they are called, abound in every member of our family.
†b. Derivative. Obs. rare.
1624F. White Repl. Fisher 236 This holinesse being only relatiue, transitorie, and denominatiue, and not inherent or durable.
B. n.
†1. A ‘denominative’ or attributive term: see A. 1 b. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvii. (Arb.), He that said thus of a faire Lady: ‘O rare beautie, ô grace, and curtesie!’ Whereas if he had said thus, O gratious, courteous and beautifull woman:..it had bene all to one effect, yet not with such force..to speake by the denominatiue, as by the thing it selfe. 1599[see denominator 3].
2. Gram. A word formed or derived from a noun.
a1638Mede Wks. i. ii. (R.), For sanctity and to sanctifie being conjugates or denominatives, as logicians call them: the one openeth the way to the knowledge of the other. 1839tr. Gesenius' Hebr. Gram. 45 A peculiar kind of secondary verbs..are those denominatives, one of whose consonants, originally a servile, has become a radical. 1885tr. Socin's Arabic Gram. 26 Denominatives with a concealed transitive meaning. |