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oppositive, a. (n.)|əˈpɒzɪtɪv|
[f. opposit-, ppl. stem of L. oppōnĕre to oppose, oppone + -ive; cf. F. oppositif, -ive (Littré).]
†1. = opposite A. 1, 1 b. Obs.
1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 281 A little foure-squared Roome, oppositiue to the deualling side of..Syon. 1857Mayne Expos. Lex., Oppositīvus, applied to stamens when situated opposite the divisions of a simple perianth, as in the Lilium; or to a corol, as in the Primula;..to petals when placed before the divisions of the calyx, as in the Berberis: oppositive.
2. Characterized by opposing or contrasting; expressive of contrariety or antithesis; adversative.
1622[implied in oppositively]. 1634Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. Prosec. Transfig., Not without some oppositive comparison; not Moses, not Elias, but this: Moses and Elias were servants; this a Sonne. 1845Stoddart Grammar in Encycl. Metrop. I. 50/1 In most Languages there are negative or oppositive verbs, as volo or nolo in Latin; to do and undo in English; fier and mefier in French. 1865Lightfoot Galatians (1874) 76/1 Εἰ µή seems always to retain its proper exceptive sense, and is not simply oppositive.
3. Inclined to opposition, contentious. rare.
1865G. Macdonald A. Forbes lxxxiii. 394 Neither was the duty so unpleasant to Thomas's oppositive nature.
†B. n. = opposite B. 2. Obs. rare—1.
1651Stowe's Chaucer, Astrol. 268 b/2 Then haste thou East and West, and per consequens the oppositife, that is Southe and North. [Cf. Astrol. ii. §38.]
Hence oˈppositively adv., in an oppositive manner; also oˈppositiveness.
1622T. Stoughton Chr. Sacrif. xv. 205 The will of God..is here said to be perfect. This also I understand oppositiuely and comparatiuely. Oppositiuely, because the old Testament was imperfect: comparatiuely, because this therefore is more perfect. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 18 Oppositively, as it is opposed to that external duration after this world, when time shall be no more. 1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 225, I had the organ of ‘oppositiveness’. |