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compellative, a. and n. rare.|kəmˈpɛlətɪv|
[f. compellāt- (see compellate) + -ive.]
A. adj. Denoting address.
In mod. Dicts.
B. n. A word used as a name, title, or appellation; = compellation 2 b, c.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. I. viii. 41 Compellative is a thing in speaking which we call another, as: Atrides, Agamemnon, King of men. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 209 Many a gentleman..fully entitled to such a compellative.
†b. = Vocative (case). Obs.
1849J. W. Gibbs Philol. Stud. (1857) 47 We have, in continuous discourse, the compellative or vocative. |