释义 |
voluntative, a. and n. [ad. med.L. voluntativus, f. L. voluntāt-, voluntas volunty.] A. adj. †a. (See quot. 1656.) Obs.—0 b. Hebrew Gram. Of a verbal form: Expressive of a desire; desiderative. c. Having the ability to act or accomplish at will; voluntary.
1656Blount Glossogr., Voluntative, that proceeds from the Will, wilfull, or full of desire. 1870tr. Lange's Comm., Song Sol. viii. 3 The following voluntative or jussive future. 1883Amer. Jrnl. Philol. IV. 425 The simple solution seems to be that the conditioning of a purpose destroys its absolute voluntative power. B. n. Hebrew Gram. A verbal form expressive of a desire to do the action denoted by the verb; a desiderative.
1870J. F. Smith Ewald's Introd. Hebr. Gram. 160 The voluntative, or the expression of the desire that something may be, arises from the imperf. [etc.]. 1874A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebr. Gram. 50 By some grammarians this form is called Cohortative; others embrace both the long and short forms under the name voluntative. |