ejectiveadj.n.
/ɪˈdʒɛktɪv/ 1. That has the function or the power of ejecting.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > ejecting
spewing1578
ejaculatory1655
ejective1657
extrusive1816
throw-out1870
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. G3 The one a vomiting or ejective Medicament.
1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory i. ii. 56 The Ancients thought there was some ejective Property in all purging Medicines.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 301 Each shot carries with it its own share of ejective force.
1886 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 428 The giant planets must have possessed corresponding ejective energies.
2. Pertaining to an eject.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [adjective] > of or relating to entities or existence of entities > of types of existence
supposital1656
external1667
objective1744
ejective1883
out there1965
1883 G. J. Romanes Mental Evol. Animals i. 16 This necessarily ejective method of enquiry.
1884 G. J. Romanes in Nature 21 Feb. 380/1 Our ejective inferences can only be founded on the observable activities of organisms.
3. Philology. Of voiceless consonants: articulated by means of non-pulmonic air-pressure, created by closing and raising the glottis. Also as n.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [adjective] > voiceless > types of
ejective1932
1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) xvii. 141 Consonants..in which the necessary air pressure is produced by some other means than by the lungs. Sounds in which the air is forced outwards by these means are called ejective consonants.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. iii. 57 Ejectives (plosives with a simultaneous glottal stop).
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iii. 103 Three non-pulmonic types of consonant articulations are used in some languages: ejectives, implosives, and clicks.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iii. 103 Ejective consonants, which are sometimes also called glottalized consonants, are most commonly found with plosive or affricate release.
1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 323 Ejectives have a transition with a somewhat higher termination frequency than the corresponding nonejectives.
Derivatives
eˈjectively adv. (a) By means of ejection. (b) With reference to ejects.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [adverb] > in relation to existence of entity
entitatively1677
ejectively1883
ontically1947
1883 G. J. Romanes Mental Evol. Animals i. 17 Ejectively some such criterion is required.
ejecˈtivity n. the fact of being an eject.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity > inferred entity
eject1878
ejectivity1886
1886 G. J. Romanes in Contemp. Rev. July 48 Both subjectivity and ejectivity are only known under the condition of being isolated from objectivity.
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