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discretive, a. and n.|dɪˈskriːtɪv|
[ad. L. discrētīv-us serving to distinguish (Priscian), f. discrēt- ppl. stem of discernĕre to distinguish, divide, discern. Cf. OF. discretif (15th c. in Godef.).]
A. adj.
1. = disjunctive.
a. Gram. and Logic.
discretive conjunction, discretive proposition: see quots.; discretive distinction, a distinction expressing a difference in kind, as ‘not a plant, but an animal’. Cf. discrete a. 3.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. ii. v. 93 In absolute copulative and discretive axiomes, there is no ὑπόθεσις, no condition at all. a1602W. Perkins Cases Consc. (1619) 240 The latter is coupled to the former by a discretiue coniunction. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. vii. 5 But is a Particle,..and he that says it is a discretive Conjunction,..thinks he has sufficiently explain'd it. 1753S. Shuckford Creation & Fall Man 43 It is not here a discretive Particle, disjoining and distinguishing two Parts of one Period; but it is illative. 1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 389 The word only, as I have just observed, is no doubt discretive. 1891Welton Logic I. ii. i. 192 Discretive Propositions, where two affirmative propositions are connected by an adversative conjunction.
b. generally.
1660Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. (1701) 432/2 He held that there are four Elements, Fire, Air, Water, Earth; and two principal powers, Amity and Discord; one unitive, the other discretive. 1836I. Taylor Phys. Th. Another Life (1857) 59 Mind allied to matter..thus lives..by its own discretive act.
†2. Serving to distinguish or discriminate; distinctive; discriminative; diacritic. Obs.
1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels To Rdr. 8 Not hauing vpon them some discretiue stampe or discerning censure. a1631Donne Serm. Gen. i. 26 (1634) 33, I have a power to judge; a judiciarie, a discretive power, a power to discern between a naturall accident and a judgement of God. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. x. 51 A name is an instructive and discretive instrument of the essence. 1803W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIV. 487 Such sub-division is neither discretive nor exhaustive. 1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 388, note, Grounds on which the Socinians assume the title of rational Christians as a specifically discretive appellation.
†B. n.
1. A disjunctive conjunction or proposition. Obs.
1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 48 Discretives, by which the parts are lightly Severed. 1650R. Hollingworth Exerc. Usurped Powers 19 Joyning them together with the copulative (and) and not using the discretive (or). 1654Z. Coke Logick (1657). 119 To the truth of a discretive is required the truth of both parts. 1725Watts Logic ii. ii. §6 All compound propositions, except copulatives and discretives, are properly denied or contradicted when the negation affects their conjunctive particles.
†2. A discriminative phrase or concept. Obs.
1660Z. Crofton St. Peters Bonds abide 2 His universal discretive, ‘All Episcopacy’. |