explicativeadj.n.

1602 J. Colville Parænese 94 Bot in the tabill of our lord I remember not to haue red the body of Cryst to haue bene callit absolutly bread bot euer vith sum adiection, ether demonstratiue, relatyue, or explicatiue.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. ix. 123 Here is forbidden..an anger with deliberation, and purpose of revenge, this being explicative and additionall to the precept forbidding murder.

a1679 M. Poole Annot. Holy Bible (1683) I. sig. 9K3/1 And being here, as in the foregoing verse explicative, not copulative, unless it note, that in an ordinary way the Spirit, and the Word go together wherever either of them are effectual.

1716 C. Owen J. Owen's Validity of Dissenting Ministry i. iii. 30 Let us descend to some Particulars that are explicative of the Case.

1757 Herald (1758) I. No. 4. 62 I shall be particularly explicative in the course of these publications.

1826 R. Motherby (title) Pocket dictionary of the Scottish idiom.., with an appendix giving notes explicative of Scottish customs, manners, traditions &c.

1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. x. 393 These are for Mr. Carlyle, the vital, the explicative facts in Cromwell's career and character.

1967 C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol 14 Early literary texts must be studied either in the light of philological learning and of all the necessary explicative peripheral matters, or they may be read merely as literature.

1971 Cincinnati Aug. 7/2 The periodical is aimed particularly at the commercial writer of shorter pieces, stories, articles, and explicative literature of all sorts, and especially at the novice.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 18 May 22 [He] is one of quantum's more respected advocates, and, as a Discovery Channel presenter, is also a skilful turner of explicative phrases.

2014 G. Siedina in Latinitas in Polish Crown & Grand Duchy of Lithuania 116 As we can see, Buchanan is at the same time more descriptive and more explicative than the original, which is to be expected in a paraphrase.

1725 I. Watts Logick ii. ii. 257 If the Term which is added to the Subject of a complex Proposition be either essential or any Way necessary to it, then it is called explicative, for it only explains the Subject; as, every mortal man is a Son of Adam.

1784 R. Labutte French Gram. ii. i. 67 Or else that individual sense is expressed by a relative pronoun introducing an incident phrase, explicative or determinative of its antecedent; the false supposition which hath been made; the man who does not observe the laws is unfit for society.

1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason Introd. 10 In all judgments wherein the relationship of a subject to a Predicate is thought,..either the predicate B belongs to the subject B, as something which is contained in the conception A, (in a covert manner,) or B lies completely out of the conception A, although it stands in connexion with it. In the first case, I name the judgment analytical, in the other synthetical... We might name the first also explicative.

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic v. 143 The incidental Judgment expressed in an additional word or clause may be either explicative or limitative. It is Explicative, when it is of the nature of a complete or partial definition, and therefore belongs to the Term to which it is annexed in the whole of its Extension.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. i. 207 The new judgments..are all explicative or analytic.

1905 A. Wolf Existential Import of Categorical Predication v. 120 Analytical or Explicative Judgments are normally affirmative and either universal or singular, not particular.

1919 Classical Weekly 12 174/1 Of necessity explicative clauses, unless indeed they are parenthetical, must express a thought having some relation to the act or the situation of the antecedent clause.

1949 Philos. Rev. 58 313 It is, of course, natural to suppose that explicative propositions, like, ‘A father is a male parent’, are analytic.

1966 N. Chomsky Cartesian Linguistics 35 There, a distinction is developed between explicative (nonrestrictive or appositive) and determinative (restrictive) relative clauses.

2014 D. Macbeth Realizing Reason viii. 401 In an analytic, merely explicative judgment, the predicate concept is contained already in the concept of the subject and so must be affirmed of the subject on pain of contradiction.

1762 R. Lowth Short Introd. Eng. Gram. 116 An Explicative Sentence is when a thing is said to be, or not to be; to do, or not to do; to suffer, or not to suffer; in a direct manner.

1788 J. Seally Lady's Encycl. II. 21 This must be understood of explicative sentences; for when the sentence is interrogative, just the reverse..takes place.

1842 T. Marshall Dutch Gram. 117 An Explicative Sentence..is that in which something is affirmed or denied in a direct manner as..man is mortal..water is liquid.