† possessivaladj.
Grammar. Obsolete. rare.
Of or relating to the possessive case; = possessive adj. 1.
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1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) x. 523 This possessival termination ['s] detached itself, and passed into a pronoun-flexion by a sort of degeneracy, as in ‘John his book’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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adj.1873- spell and knur
- spell and null
- spell and spell
- spell and spell about
- spell backward
- spell baker
- spell check
- spell checker
- spell checks
- spell down
- spell for spell
- spell oh!
- spell oh!ho!
- spell one backward
- spell out
- spell someone down
- spell-banned
- spell-bind
- spell-bindingly
- spell-bound
- spell-casting
- spell-caught
- spell-check
- spell-checked
- spell-checking