illativeadj.n.

1611 W. Sclater Key iii. 20. 328 First reason..collected from the illatiue particle therefore.

1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. ii. 23 Which word is not causal, but illative.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Hebrew ii. Pref. Our Apostle..draw[s] an Inference..as appears by the illative Particle, Therefore, at the head of the first Verse.

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vii. 220 Connected by an illative particle, because, then, therefore, &c.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iv. viii. 40 The promissorie part is illative upon and relative unto the matter of the assertorie part.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. 89 There is a great deal of difference between a mere illative necessity, which consists only in the logical consequence of one thing upon another, and between a causal necessity [etc.].

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vi. 156 Logic takes notice only of what is called illative Conversion, in which the Convertend and the Converse must either both be true, or both be false, together. Thus the Conversion of No A is B, into No B is A, is illative..But the Conversion of Some A are not B, into Some B are not A, is not illative.

1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent ix. §3. 354 The faculty or talent, which I call the Ratiocinative or Illative Sense, being parallel to phronesis in conduct, and to taste in the Fine Arts.

1876 L. Campbell in Contemp. Rev. June 101 The English idiom is neither adversative nor illative in the same degree with the Greek.

1890 A. S. Gatschet Klamath Indians i. 483 The suffix marks as well (1) a motion or direction toward an object or into a place or country, as (2) a stay or rest at or in a place, region, country. It is more frequently used in the former sense, and hence I have called the case the illative case.

1958 A. S. C. Ross Etymol. 167 Illative case, the case of ‘motion towards’, as in Finnish Helsinkiin ‘to Helsinki’.

1959 J. C. Catford in R. Quirk & A. H. Smith Teaching of English vi. 186 Roughly the same field is covered by the system of ‘local cases’ in Finnish.. ‘illative’..‘ablative’..‘elative’.

1968 C. J. Fillmore in E. Bach & R. T. Harms Universals in Ling. Theory 9 Redden..finds five case indices in Walapai..and identifies each of these with terms taken from the tradition of case studies:..-l is illative/inessive, [etc.].

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Gram. sig. E A Coniunction..some are..Illatiues, as, assi, so.

1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Oratory 102 Such illatives omitted..cause much ambiguity.

a1868 C. Byington Gram. Choctaw Lang. (1870) viii. 54 Conjunctions are divided into the following classes:..Illatives; therefore, wherefore, on account of, yomohmi hokvt, yomahmi hokah.

1870 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. §481 Causals and illatives are very often omitted.

1604 W. Tooker Of Fabrique of Church 39 My Illative therfore is, the Bishop..did call other Ministers into a part of the Charge.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Clerus Domini 13 This discourse was occasioned by our Saviours illative: All power is given me, goe yee therefore and teach.

1655 Bp. J. Richardson Observ. Old Test. 434 Most commonly taken illatively.

1826 R. Whately Elements Logic ii. 101 Premises are allowed to be illatively converted.