translativeadj.n.

1567 T. Gale tr. Galen Θεραπευτικον: Methodus Medendi vi. v. in Certaine Wks. 344 The one [sc. instrument] of them which extendeth the member right out, is called in Greke Eutigporos [printed Entigporos], the other which extendeth it first vpward & after backward, is called translatiue [L. translatiuam], in Greke Metaleptice.

1567 T. Gale tr. Galen Θεραπευτικον: Methodus Medendi vi. v. in Certaine Wks. 344 When as the band is put about the parts of the broken member, it maketh the translatiue extension called Metaleptice, the armes of him being moued, first upward, & after backward.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 56 If our feete Poeticall want these qualities it can not be sayd a foote in sence translatiue as here.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xviii. 155 Properly..Allegoria is when we do speake in sence translatiue and wrested from the owne signification.

1647 S. Gorton Incorruptible Key 8 Hence is that interchangeable, translative and relative sentence uttered viz. The Lord said unto my Lord, or as the word will beare, The Lord said in my Lord.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Metaleptick, translative.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xxiv. 157 Only in a word, Mity saith Aristotle, is the black dross of wax of a sharp smell, I suppose he means the feces of the wax when it is melted and strained; Propolis seems, saith Scaliger a translative sirname of Mity.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VII. c. 394 As the translative impulse (pardon a new word..) came upon me.

1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations II. iii. ii. 319 The sense of the Greek translative Diathekè is thus determined by the sense of the Hebrew original Berith.

1882 W. Sharp D. G. Rossetti iv. 311 Renderings specially admirable for translative excellence and inherent poetic merit.

1948 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Teachers Slavic & East European Langs. 6 10/1 Two types of training are given in the current Army Program: straight language training, and language and area training. The former courses stress oral and translative ability.

2009 S. Petrilli Signifying & Understanding v. 554 She theorized translation in terms of translative processes across different universes of discourse.

1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος vii. 89 Translative Fiction, is only an Assumption of Law more upon the Modus then the thing it self;..As either when the Law by a Fiction transfers or translates some Act or Thing, either from one place to another, or from one person to another, or from one thing to another, or from one time to another.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Observ. Grafting in Wks. (1835) IV. 370 We may improve their fruits without translative conjunction, that is, by insition of the scion upon his own mother.

1718 E. Strother Euodia ii. v. 179 A translative Crisis is when a Disease is not cured, but changed into a Less; Or where this Change is made to a Disease greater in itself, in a bad one.

1765 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave IX. 65 Critical or translative pains... That is to say, when the pain of the side removes to the shoulder, arm, &c.

1839 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 556 We will set out forthwith, wishing with our excellent guide and cicerone for the translative power of Don Quixote's supernatural agents, ‘who are beings of travel, and make whoever they will, travel with them, without tiring’.

1916 San Antonio (Texas) Light 9 July (Mag.) It was only in the case of certain individuals that God exercised translative power, and always in such cases the body of the person disappeared.

1991 New Literary Hist. 22 4 Mainly the topos of translatio studii traces the lateral movement of the imperium from east to west, from Greece to Rome, from paganism to Christianity. It is not until Petrarch that this translative movement comes to be thought of as historical.

1834 B. W. Miller Rep. Supreme Court Louisiana 5 226 There must be an uninterrupted, bona fide possession, and a title translative of property on a contract or deed under which the party is put in possession.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. Comm. 172 Mancipation..might be used as a formality..of contract either translative or obligative.

1913 Southern Reporter 61 412/2 A deed describing a different tract of land from the one in controversy is not translative of the land in controversy.

1992 V. V. Palmer Paths to Privity 1 This study will not deal with contracts translative of title (i.e. so-called ‘real’ contracts).

1856 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 11 136 The directive, and not the translative energy is great.

1883 Nature 15 Mar. 459/1 A screw's motion, which is partly translative along and partly rotative round a polar axis.

1965 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 73 673/2 There is no difficulty, on symmetry or other grounds, in postulating limited translative movements directed at right angles to the direction of maximum compressive stress.

2011 H. Wendt et al. in D. W. Orchiston et al. Highlighting Hist. Astron. Asia-Pacific Region v. 415 There was also some dispute as to whether motions in the clouds were due to rotation or translative motion of the Magellanic Clouds through space.

1890 C. Eliot Finnish Gram. 118 Adverbs are also found in the comparative and superlative degree, and are then in the essive, partitive, and translative cases, or adessive, ablative, and allative.

1905 J. O. H. Jespersen Hist. Eng. Lang. 9 Translative, indicating the state into which anyone or anything passes.

1977 Jrnl. Linguistics 13 27 Another rule assimilates the initial consonant of the instrumental suffix -val/vel and the translative suffix -vá/vé to a preceding consonant.

1991 Language 67 868 Translative verbs express ‘changing into a new state or adopting a new quality expressed by the stem’, and are derived from adjectives or quantifiers, or from nouns which refer to place or direction.

2010 Nat. Lang. & Ling. Theory 28 143 Resultative predicates of different types in Finnish are all marked with translative case.

1869 Trans. Lit. & Hist. Soc. Quebec 1867-9 6 50 The Translative denotes a changing to something.

1899 H. Sweet Pract. Study Langs. viii. 64 In Finnish..all ‘translatives’ end in -ksi without any distinctions of gender.

1917 C. Niemi Finnish Gram. 119 Verbs signifying to name, consider, tell, call, guess, etc. may take the translative.

1998 G. Zaicz in D. Abondolo Uralic Langs. vi. 203 Gad-..makes translatives from adjectives and nouns.

2017 C. de Groot Uralic Essive & Expression Impermanent State xxi. 497 Several Uralic languages have the translative.