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continuative, a. and n.|kənˈtɪnjuːətɪv|
[ad. L. continuātīv-us, f. ppl. stem of continuāre to continue: see -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Tending or serving to continue or impart continuity: † of material substance (obs.); of existence, action, etc.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. ix. 330 The Cure of the Fissure of the Lips consists in..restoring the continuative moisture. 1865W. Kay Crisis Hupfeldiana 52 Now, this is a continuative way of speaking. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §594 Logic..is not originative and creative; it is only regulative and continuative.
2. Expressing continuance: see B. 1.
1924Jespersen Philos. Gram. viii. 113 A so-called continuative relative clause is, of course, non-restrictive. 1927― Mod. Eng. Gram. III. 82 A subdivision..is formed by continuative clauses, in which who and which might be replaced by and he. 1957Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. i. iv. 59 To denote an action or a state beginning at some time in the past and continuing up to the moment of speaking, English requires the perfect tense (known in this function as the continuative perfect). ‘We've known each other for years.’
B. n. (the adj. used absol.) Anything that serves to continue or produce continuity: spec.
a. A conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause or sentence; a subordinative conjunction. Also a form of the verb expressing continuance of action in some languages.
1530Palsgr. 148 Some [conjunctions] be continuatives. 1751Harris Hermes (1841) 187 The continuatives are ‘if’, ‘because’, ‘therefore’, ‘that’, &c..The copulative does no more than barely couple sentences..Continuatives..by a more intimate connection, consolidate sentences into one continuous whole. Ibid. ii. (1786) 247 All these continuatives are resolvable into copulatives. 1870F. Hall Hindî Reader 146 A few intensives and continuatives are formed.
†b. A proposition expressing continuance. Obs.
1725Watts Logic ii. ii. §6 [Among] the second sort of compound Propositions..may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz. Rome was, and Rome is.
Hence continuatively adv.; conˈtinuativeness, the quality of being continuative; persistency in attention or effort.
1881Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 2/3 The outward signs of firmness, ambition, and concentration or continuativeness. |