单词 | injunctive |
释义 | injunctiveadj. 1. Having the character or quality of enjoining. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > enjoining or of nature of injunction charging1576 injunctive1624 epitactic1845 1624 [see injunctively adv. at Derivatives]. 1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 536 I do not mean Permissive in counter-distinction to Injunctive. a1853 R. Wardlaw Lect. James (1869) iv. 66 It is pure in all its precepts, injunctive or prohibitive. 1905 N.Y. Evening Post 6 Dec. 3 Vice-Chancellor Stevenson refused to make any injunctive order. 2. Grammar. Applied to the form of a verb (in Vedic, Hittite, etc.) having secondary personal endings and expressing injunction. Also as n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > other specific types of verb commonc1450 personal?1482 perfect1530 valuative1566 suppletive1633 auxiliary1751 active-passive1859 mutative1866 preterito-presential1875 preterite-present1888 passival1892 preteritive present1894 applicative1903 injunctive1910 activo-passive1927 ornative1934 eventive1946 notional1957 non-factive1969 contrafactive1979 1910 A. A. Macdonell Vedic Gram. for Students vii. 316 The unaugmented forms of past tenses used modally, are sometimes called improper subjunctives, but they are more suitably termed injunctives, as they appear to have originally expressed an injunction. 1927 E. A. Sonnenschein Soul of Gram. §73 What a pity that no one thought of calling the [subjunctive] mood ἐπιτακτική— a term which would have been translatable by the Latin iniunctivus, ‘injunctive’, i.e. ‘enjoining’. 1965 Language 41 1 -si imperatives derive from root injunctives, to which could be suffixed -i or -u to form imperatives. 1971 F. R. Adrados in Archivum Linguisticum II. 97 Ambrosini believes that s [in Indo-European] was the marker of intransitivity; Pariente calls it an injunctive characteristic. 1971 F. R. Adrados in Archivum Linguisticum II. 99 I think we can ascribe to older Indo-European, verbal forms of a type similar to the injunctive, well attested in Vedic and Hittite. Derivatives inˈjunctively adv. by way of injunction. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adverb] > by way of an injunction injunctively1624 1624 E. Bolton Nero Caesar 233 Actions of life (to whose description an historians penne is iniunctiuely tied). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.1624 |
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