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limitative, a. and n.|ˈlɪmɪtətɪv|
[ad. F. limitatif, -ive (16th c. in Hatzf.), ad. med.L. līmitātīvus, f. L. līmitāre to limit: see -ative.]
A. adj.
1. Tending to limit; limiting, restrictive.
† limitative place: in Scholastic philosophy, ‘place’ in the sense in which it is predicable of things that do not occupy space; = definitive a. 3. limitative judgement (Logic): used by Kant to denote judgements of the type ‘Every A is a not-B’, which he regarded as a class co-ordinate with affirmative and negative judgements; also occas. used for a judgement serving to limit or modify another.
1530Rastell Purgatory iii. xi. g 4 Therfore purgatory can be no place contynentyue but purgatorye maye be a place lymytatyue, and also a place operatyue. For where so euer that god doth lymyt the soule of man after it is separate from the body to be purged, there is y⊇ place lymytatyue of the soule. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 464 Without using the limitative particle (onely) or (alone) to restrain his extravagant interpretation. 1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Observ. Peel's Sp. (1830) 53 Before the words ‘every other country’ stands..the limitative word ‘almost’. 1864Bowen Logic v. 143 The incidental Judgment expressed in an additional word or clause may be either explicative or limitative. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. vi. 307 Nor need Logic regard the infinite or limitative judgment as distinct from the affirmative. 1886Sat. Rev. 31 July 151 Their several undertakings should be co-extensive and mutually limitative. 1892Athenæum 4 June 722/3 Being essentially negative and limitative, it can only end in negative conclusions.
†2. Subject to a limit or condition, conditional.
1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 67 A prudent Possessor of the Bill will accept of no conditional or limitative Acceptance.
B. n. Logic. A limitative judgement.
1864Bowen Logic v. 144 In respect to Limitatives, no question can arise concerning the truth or falsity of the incidental Proposition. |