| 释义 |
† specificative, a. Obs.
[f. specificate v. + -ive. Cf. F. spécificatif, -ive (14th c. in Godef.).]
That serves to specify or distinguish; specific.
1641Relat. Answ. Earl of Strafford 54 Treason was a thing of a simple and specificative nature. 1644Hunton Vindic. Treat. Monarchy iii. 13 It's specificative distinction must be from something which distinguisheth Powers. 1710tr. Werenfels's Disc. Logom. 25 Whether Body, as natural, be the Object of its Speculation? And if so, whether the word As be reduplicative or specificative. |