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单词 occasionative
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occasionativeadj.

Forms: 1500s occasionatyue, 1500s–1600s occasionative.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin occasionativus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin occasionativus providing occasion or opportunity (c1283 in a British source; 1646 in the passage translated in quot. 1655) < occasionat- , past participial stem of occasionare occasionate v. + -ivus -ive suffix.
Obsolete.
Constituting or serving as the occasion or cause, esp. as incidental cause.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > causing > occasioning
contributary1567
contributive1583
contributory1594
occasional1646
occasionative1655
occasionate1658
occasioning1817
1526 [implied in: W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKiiiv Outher immediatly or mediatly:..directly or indirectly, principally or occasionatiuely. (at occasionatively adv.)].
?1544 Bp. S. Gardiner Tract against W. Turner in Lett. (1933) 486 That instrumental or occasionative, concurrent or ministeriall cause hath attribute unto it in speche the hole effect.
1655 tr. Sanderson's Promissory Oaths iii. §11. 85 As they may be impeditive of good, or causative, or at the least (for we may use such words) occasionative of evill.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxiii. 193 In these..things..there may be somewhat occasionative of the..Yell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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