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subdisˈjunctive, a. and n. Logic and Gram. [ad. mod.L. subdisjunctīvus, = Gr. ὑποδιαζευκτικός: see sub- 19 + disjunctive.] A. adj. Partly disjunctive (see quots.). B. n. A subdisjunctive proposition or word.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. viii. (1687) 441 Contraries are either disjunctive or subdisjunctive... Subdisjunctive, are of two kinds, either in whole, betwixt Universals,..or in part, betwixt particulars... Of subdisjunctives in whole, both cannot be true, both may be false; both cannot be affirmative, both cannot be negative. Of subdisjunctives in part, both may be true, because they are taken in part. 1751Harris Hermes 258 note, The Latins had a peculiar Particle for this occasion, which they called Subdisjunctiva, a Sub⁓disjunctive; and that was Sive. 1818Stoddart in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 162/2 Priscian distinguishes the subdisjunctive from the disjunctive... In English we use the conjunction or indifferently as a disjunctive or subdisjunctive, that is, we say, ‘Alexander or Paris’, whether Alexander and Paris be two different persons, or only two different names for the same person. 1865Liddell & Scott Gr. Lex. (ed. 5), ὑποδιαζευκτικός..as Gramm. word, subdisjunctive. So subdisˈjunction rare—0.
1869Liddell & Scott Gr. Lex. (ed. 6), ὑποδιάζευξις, sub⁓disjunction. |