terminativeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈtəːmᵻnətɪv/, U.S.

/ˈtɛrməˌneɪdɪv/,

/ˈtɛrmənədɪv/

Forms: late Middle English 1600s terminatiue, late Middle English 1600s– terminative.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin terminativus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin terminativus that brings to an end, concluding (9th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources), directed to some ultimate object (13th cent. in a British source), that provides or forms a boundary (14th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin termināt- , past participial stem of termināre terminate v. + -īvus -ive suffix. With sense A. 3 compare earlier terminatively adv. 2.Compare Spanish terminativo (1490), Italian terminativo (end of the 14th cent.). In grammatical use (see sense A. 4b) after German terminativ (1897 in this sense: B. Delbrück in K. Brugmann & B. Delbrück Grundriss der vergl. Grammatik der indogerman. Sprachen IV. 15). With sense B. 2 compare French terminatif (1769 denoting a grammatical case).

A. adj.

1. Forming a boundary, limit, or extremity; = terminal adj. 4c. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [adjective] > that bounds or forms boundary

terminative?a1475

bounding1594

boundedc1600

limitary1771

circumscribing1846

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 109 Mersee in Englische sowndethe as a see terminatiue [L. terminans mare], for hit disterminate[d] oon realme from an other.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 51 The water of Thammyse..was somme tyme as a cause terminative [L. terminus] of men of Kente, of Este Saxones, West Saxones, and of men of the Marches.

1728 C. Place That Space is Necessary Being 78 Within all those terminative Lines and Points, with which our Imagination would work its Distinctions.

1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 36 Some colour, which should be the terminative colour of the perspicuous and opaque.

1878 O. F. Bump Notes Constit. Decisions 199 An immaterial change in a terminative point of a road does not release a stockholder.

1900 Jrnl. Quekett Microsc. Club Nov. 392 Their terminative fine nerve cords are untraceable in the surrounding tissue.

2009 J. Celeyrette in C. Grellard & A. Robert Atomism in Late Medieval Philos. & Theol. 164 A terminative point (punctum terminans) corresponds to the fact that a line goes until there and not beyond.

a. Bringing something, or coming to, an end; concluding, finishing. Also: conclusive, definitive. Now rare.In early use frequently contrasted with inchoative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > completing > [adjective] > that tends to produce final result > bringing to a conclusion

finial?a1400

terminant1589

terminative1613

conclusive1639

summing1657

concluding1795

conclusory1846

terminational1874

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [adjective]

finalc1365

endinga1400

finial?a1400

endly1436

conclusional1471

terminalc1475

parting?1570

supreme1570

terminant1589

desinent1608

terminative1613

conclusive1639

graciousa1701

finishing1705

ultimate1755

concluding1795

closing1796

wind-up1843

net1844

conclusory1846

terminational1874

summative1877

wrap-up1968

1613 S. Benefield Comm. Prophecy Amos iii. 28 That obvious, and much vsed distinction in schoole divinity: Inchoative, & terminative.

a1680 S. Charnock Wks. (1684) I. Suppl. 2 Thoughts are inchoative in the fancy, consummative in the understanding, terminative in all the other faculties.

a1832 J. Bentham Fragm. Ontol. in Wks. (1843) VIII. 207/1 To the class of terminating or terminative motions belong all those which have place in our planet.

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. i. 13 The interior, as seen through the window, caused him to draw up with a terminative air and watch.

1919 Deb. Mass. Constit. Convent. 1917–18 I. x. 534 A decision of four to three will still be valid and terminative.

2015 D. C. Knottenbelt et al. Clin. Equine Oncology i. 85 Direct examination and 'intuitive supposition' are usually enough to reach a terminative diagnosis.

†b. Of an illness, etc.: = terminal adj. 1b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [adjective] > terminal

terminative1675

terminal1854

1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London x. 141 Those being mis-applied..are unpowered to render the Disease far worse, and provect it into a Terminative Scorvey.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 417 Cases of..old standing terminative dementia.

1924 E. C. Booth Miss Parkworth 157 She had supported a drunken father through a prolonged terminative illness, and had gone into heartfelt mourning for him on his demise.

a. Constituting the ultimate object of an action; (of an object or end) ultimate, final. Cf. objective adj. 2. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > constituting purpose or object > ultimate

finalc1400

terminative1624

ultimate1654

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 224 Neither is the Picture or Image..the terminatiue object of Loue..or Worship.

1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace ix. 195 No duties or Ordinances..are or ought to be Central and terminative to the soul.

1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 244 The Soul is but a Mediate Subject while it is in the Body, and not a Terminative.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. v. 235 There can be no act of the Divine understanding above them [sc. the Divine Ideas], but what must of necessity suppose them as the terminative forms of it.

1836 J. Howe Christian Theol. xiii. 271 We cannot conceive of any creature whatsoever..but as of a most horrid idol, if made the terminative object of our love.

1856 Evangelical Repository Sept. 20 An end—an intentional end—is a terminative aim.

1995 J. P. Doyle in J. P. Doyle tr. F. Suárez On Beings Reason 80 A terminative object versus a principiative or motive object of cognition.

b. Of an action or activity (esp. worship): having an ultimate object; ending in or directed to something as an ultimate object. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > having a purpose

terminative1632

purposive1854

telic1889

1632 W. Struther Looking Glasse for Princes & People 18 They professe a power by Consecration, to make stones and stockes to bee adored with a relatiue and terminatiue worship.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. vi. §27 To take off this trifle of worship Relative and worship Terminative.

1679 C. Ness Protestant Antidote Popery 38 Their worship being not..terminative in the creature.

1727 Def. Certain Queries relating to Trinity 64 Supposing he [sc. Christ] had by nature a right to such supreme or terminative worship.

1827 J. Garbett Nullity Rom. Faith ix. 351 The same divine worship is paid to the image as to God himself; and the sole difference is, that the worship is transitive to the former, and terminative to the latter.

1937 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 26 497 In natural being there is a certain participation of the Divine Being, but only of what we may call the lowest form (terminative, as the theologians say) of the activity of God, that which has as its term the creation.

4. Grammar.

a. Of a grammatical case, a suffix, etc.: specifying an end limit in space or time; conveying the goal or target of an action. Also (in early use): dative.The terminative case (or its equivalent) is found particularly in agglutinating languages such as Hungarian, Estonian, and ancient Sumerian.

ΚΠ

1830 L. E. Peithman Pract. Lat. Gram. i. 4 From its general signification, the dative might more properly be called the terminative case.

1854 R. Aliva Young Ladies' First Fr. Bk. v. 114 A pronoun in the terminative case is either preceded by a preposition or the preposition is understood.

1903 Amer. Anthropologist 5 13 Some of the most frequently occurring [suffixes] are inessive, superessive, introessive, ablative, and terminative.

1955 N. N. Poppe Introd. to Mongolian Compar. Stud. 206 The terminative case..is a rare case and few words occur in it.

1982 Language 58 220 The type represented by -ig ‘terminative’ never has an initial consonant in phonetic form [in Hungarian].

2014 F. Meakins & R. Nordlinger Gram. of Bilinarra iv. 113 Terminative case marks movement all the way to an endpoint.

b. Of, relating to, or designating a verb or aspect of a verb which denotes a completed action, or the end or completion of an action. Cf. perfective adj. 2b, inchoative adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > aspect > [adjective] > terminative

terminative1902

terminate1931

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 676/2 Verbs which have regard to the beginning or end of the action he [sc. B. Delbrück] calls terminative.

1915 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 36 2 In terms of ‘aspect’, speak is ‘durative’ or ‘imperfective’, while say is ‘terminative’ or ‘perfective’.

1953 B. A. van Groningen In Grip of Past ii. 18 This negative aspect then changes into the so-called instantaneous one, sometimes specialised into the inchoative or terminative aspect, but the action always remains situated in the past.

1984 Eng. World-wide 4 208 The terminative markers gaan and kom, which occur only with motion verbs in this perfective function, follow the main verb.

2011 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 77 291 Aspectual categories such as progressive, ingressive, and terminative are expressed periphrastically.

B. n.

1. A word ending; spec. an inflectional or derivational suffix; = termination n. 6. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > suffix

termisona1400

termination1495

paragoge1577

paragogic1593

desinence1598

terminative1649

suffix1778

subfix1795

postfix1805

ending1864

postbase1958

1649 C. Raue Gen. Grammer in Disc. Orientall Tongues (new ed.) 195 The terminatives of the present and future being one, there are onely two sorts of terminations through all the 13 orders for all Verbs.

1768 J.-N. de Sauseuil Anal. French Orthogr. in 5 Tables 4 Since the e, received such an influence of gravity from the affixion of a terminative, as soon as that e is forsaken by its terminative, to which alone it was indebted for its sound, there remain left to it but two chances, either obscurity again, or nought.

1891 C. A. Ward Oracles of Nostradamus 233 Sainte Dame I take to be equivalent to our English Halidom, consisting of Holy and Dome—a terminative seen in kingdom and Christendom, and signifying rule or lordship.

1988 D. W. Cummings Amer. Eng. Spelling ii. 44 The verb within reception must be receive, the terminatives +ceive and +cept being coelements in a set.

2. Grammar. With the: the terminative case. See sense A. 4a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > other specific cases

ablativec1400

instrumental1801

prepositional1824

allative1854

adessive1855

sociative1859

comitative1860

terminative1865

abessive1869

common case1869

translative1869

instructive1879

essive1890

transitional case1890

superessive1895

prepositional case1897

similative1903

lative1939

perlative1953

elative1959

1865 H. A. Jäschke Short Pract. Gram. Tibetan Lang. iii. 43 The attribute may also be put in the Terminative.

1958 Language 34 158 The terminative is a secondary case, following the genitive-singular or genitive-plural.

2005 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 68 300 He summarizes the functions of the locative as being ‘motion into, position inside’ and that of the terminative as ‘motion towards’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	terminative
释义	terminativeadj.n. Brit. /ˈtəːmᵻnətɪv/, U.S. /ˈtɛrməˌneɪdɪv/, /ˈtɛrmənədɪv/ Forms: late Middle English 1600s terminatiue, late Middle English 1600s– terminative. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin terminativus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin terminativus that brings to an end, concluding (9th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources), directed to some ultimate object (13th cent. in a British source), that provides or forms a boundary (14th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin termināt- , past participial stem of termināre terminate v. + -īvus -ive suffix. With sense A. 3 compare earlier terminatively adv. 2.Compare Spanish terminativo (1490), Italian terminativo (end of the 14th cent.). In grammatical use (see sense A. 4b) after German terminativ (1897 in this sense: B. Delbrück in K. Brugmann & B. Delbrück Grundriss der vergl. Grammatik der indogerman. Sprachen IV. 15). With sense B. 2 compare French terminatif (1769 denoting a grammatical case). A. adj. 1. Forming a boundary, limit, or extremity; = terminal adj. 4c. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [adjective] > that bounds or forms boundary terminative?a1475 bounding1594 boundedc1600 limitary1771 circumscribing1846 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 109 Mersee in Englische sowndethe as a see terminatiue [L. terminans mare], for hit disterminate[d] oon realme from an other. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 51 The water of Thammyse..was somme tyme as a cause terminative [L. terminus] of men of Kente, of Este Saxones, West Saxones, and of men of the Marches. 1728 C. Place That Space is Necessary Being 78 Within all those terminative Lines and Points, with which our Imagination would work its Distinctions. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 36 Some colour, which should be the terminative colour of the perspicuous and opaque. 1878 O. F. Bump Notes Constit. Decisions 199 An immaterial change in a terminative point of a road does not release a stockholder. 1900 Jrnl. Quekett Microsc. Club Nov. 392 Their terminative fine nerve cords are untraceable in the surrounding tissue. 2009 J. Celeyrette in C. Grellard & A. Robert Atomism in Late Medieval Philos. & Theol. 164 A terminative point (punctum terminans) corresponds to the fact that a line goes until there and not beyond. 2. a. Bringing something, or coming to, an end; concluding, finishing. Also: conclusive, definitive. Now rare.In early use frequently contrasted with inchoative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [adjective] > that tends to produce final result > bringing to a conclusion finial?a1400 terminant1589 terminative1613 conclusive1639 summing1657 concluding1795 conclusory1846 terminational1874 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [adjective] finalc1365 endinga1400 finial?a1400 endly1436 conclusional1471 terminalc1475 parting?1570 supreme1570 terminant1589 desinent1608 terminative1613 conclusive1639 graciousa1701 finishing1705 ultimate1755 concluding1795 closing1796 wind-up1843 net1844 conclusory1846 terminational1874 summative1877 wrap-up1968 1613 S. Benefield Comm. Prophecy Amos iii. 28 That obvious, and much vsed distinction in schoole divinity: Inchoative, & terminative. a1680 S. Charnock Wks. (1684) I. Suppl. 2 Thoughts are inchoative in the fancy, consummative in the understanding, terminative in all the other faculties. a1832 J. Bentham Fragm. Ontol. in Wks. (1843) VIII. 207/1 To the class of terminating or terminative motions belong all those which have place in our planet. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. i. 13 The interior, as seen through the window, caused him to draw up with a terminative air and watch. 1919 Deb. Mass. Constit. Convent. 1917–18 I. x. 534 A decision of four to three will still be valid and terminative. 2015 D. C. Knottenbelt et al. Clin. Equine Oncology i. 85 Direct examination and 'intuitive supposition' are usually enough to reach a terminative diagnosis. †b. Of an illness, etc.: = terminal adj. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [adjective] > terminal terminative1675 terminal1854 1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London x. 141 Those being mis-applied..are unpowered to render the Disease far worse, and provect it into a Terminative Scorvey. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 417 Cases of..old standing terminative dementia. 1924 E. C. Booth Miss Parkworth 157 She had supported a drunken father through a prolonged terminative illness, and had gone into heartfelt mourning for him on his demise. 3. a. Constituting the ultimate object of an action; (of an object or end) ultimate, final. Cf. objective adj. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > constituting purpose or object > ultimate finalc1400 terminative1624 ultimate1654 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 224 Neither is the Picture or Image..the terminatiue object of Loue..or Worship. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace ix. 195 No duties or Ordinances..are or ought to be Central and terminative to the soul. 1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 244 The Soul is but a Mediate Subject while it is in the Body, and not a Terminative. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. v. 235 There can be no act of the Divine understanding above them [sc. the Divine Ideas], but what must of necessity suppose them as the terminative forms of it. 1836 J. Howe Christian Theol. xiii. 271 We cannot conceive of any creature whatsoever..but as of a most horrid idol, if made the terminative object of our love. 1856 Evangelical Repository Sept. 20 An end—an intentional end—is a terminative aim. 1995 J. P. Doyle in J. P. Doyle tr. F. Suárez On Beings Reason 80 A terminative object versus a principiative or motive object of cognition. b. Of an action or activity (esp. worship): having an ultimate object; ending in or directed to something as an ultimate object. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > having a purpose terminative1632 purposive1854 telic1889 1632 W. Struther Looking Glasse for Princes & People 18 They professe a power by Consecration, to make stones and stockes to bee adored with a relatiue and terminatiue worship. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. vi. §27 To take off this trifle of worship Relative and worship Terminative. 1679 C. Ness Protestant Antidote Popery 38 Their worship being not..terminative in the creature. 1727 Def. Certain Queries relating to Trinity 64 Supposing he [sc. Christ] had by nature a right to such supreme or terminative worship. 1827 J. Garbett Nullity Rom. Faith ix. 351 The same divine worship is paid to the image as to God himself; and the sole difference is, that the worship is transitive to the former, and terminative to the latter. 1937 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 26 497 In natural being there is a certain participation of the Divine Being, but only of what we may call the lowest form (terminative, as the theologians say) of the activity of God, that which has as its term the creation. 4. Grammar. a. Of a grammatical case, a suffix, etc.: specifying an end limit in space or time; conveying the goal or target of an action. Also (in early use): dative.The terminative case (or its equivalent) is found particularly in agglutinating languages such as Hungarian, Estonian, and ancient Sumerian. ΚΠ 1830 L. E. Peithman Pract. Lat. Gram. i. 4 From its general signification, the dative might more properly be called the terminative case. 1854 R. Aliva Young Ladies' First Fr. Bk. v. 114 A pronoun in the terminative case is either preceded by a preposition or the preposition is understood. 1903 Amer. Anthropologist 5 13 Some of the most frequently occurring [suffixes] are inessive, superessive, introessive, ablative, and terminative. 1955 N. N. Poppe Introd. to Mongolian Compar. Stud. 206 The terminative case..is a rare case and few words occur in it. 1982 Language 58 220 The type represented by -ig ‘terminative’ never has an initial consonant in phonetic form [in Hungarian]. 2014 F. Meakins & R. Nordlinger Gram. of Bilinarra iv. 113 Terminative case marks movement all the way to an endpoint. b. Of, relating to, or designating a verb or aspect of a verb which denotes a completed action, or the end or completion of an action. Cf. perfective adj. 2b, inchoative adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > aspect > [adjective] > terminative terminative1902 terminate1931 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 676/2 Verbs which have regard to the beginning or end of the action he [sc. B. Delbrück] calls terminative. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 36 2 In terms of ‘aspect’, speak is ‘durative’ or ‘imperfective’, while say is ‘terminative’ or ‘perfective’. 1953 B. A. van Groningen In Grip of Past ii. 18 This negative aspect then changes into the so-called instantaneous one, sometimes specialised into the inchoative or terminative aspect, but the action always remains situated in the past. 1984 Eng. World-wide 4 208 The terminative markers gaan and kom, which occur only with motion verbs in this perfective function, follow the main verb. 2011 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 77 291 Aspectual categories such as progressive, ingressive, and terminative are expressed periphrastically. B. n. 1. A word ending; spec. an inflectional or derivational suffix; = termination n. 6. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > suffix termisona1400 termination1495 paragoge1577 paragogic1593 desinence1598 terminative1649 suffix1778 subfix1795 postfix1805 ending1864 postbase1958 1649 C. Raue Gen. Grammer in Disc. Orientall Tongues (new ed.) 195 The terminatives of the present and future being one, there are onely two sorts of terminations through all the 13 orders for all Verbs. 1768 J.-N. de Sauseuil Anal. French Orthogr. in 5 Tables 4 Since the e, received such an influence of gravity from the affixion of a terminative, as soon as that e is forsaken by its terminative, to which alone it was indebted for its sound, there remain left to it but two chances, either obscurity again, or nought. 1891 C. A. Ward Oracles of Nostradamus 233 Sainte Dame I take to be equivalent to our English Halidom, consisting of Holy and Dome—a terminative seen in kingdom and Christendom, and signifying rule or lordship. 1988 D. W. Cummings Amer. Eng. Spelling ii. 44 The verb within reception must be receive, the terminatives +ceive and +cept being coelements in a set. 2. Grammar. With the: the terminative case. See sense A. 4a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > other specific cases ablativec1400 instrumental1801 prepositional1824 allative1854 adessive1855 sociative1859 comitative1860 terminative1865 abessive1869 common case1869 translative1869 instructive1879 essive1890 transitional case1890 superessive1895 prepositional case1897 similative1903 lative1939 perlative1953 elative1959 1865 H. A. Jäschke Short Pract. Gram. Tibetan Lang. iii. 43 The attribute may also be put in the Terminative. 1958 Language 34 158 The terminative is a secondary case, following the genitive-singular or genitive-plural. 2005 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 68 300 He summarizes the functions of the locative as being ‘motion into, position inside’ and that of the terminative as ‘motion towards’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1475
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