Definition of Ligative

1. ligation [adj] - See also: ligation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ligative

ligandome
ligandomes
ligands
ligans
ligase
ligase amplification reaction
ligases
ligate
ligated
ligates
ligatin
ligating
ligating module
ligation
ligations
ligative (current term)
ligator
ligators
ligature
ligature point
ligature points
ligature wire
ligatured
ligatureless
ligatures
ligaturing
ligeance
ligeances
ligement
ligements

Literary usage of Ligative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1900)
"... an organism in which parasitism is imperative in order to attain complete development ; obligatory. ob'ligative, as in OBLIGATE ; ~ Sym'biont, ..."

2. Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools by William Dwight Whitney (1877)
"... must or ought to give must or ought to be giving ligative Perfect. must or ought to have given must or ought to have been giving Imperative. Simple. ..."

3. Biblia by Charles Henry Stanley Davis (1904)
"It proves, for instance, that the lam-elif of Arabic is a derivation from a Nabatean lamed in ligative with an alef. De Vogue, in 1865, had suggested that ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemical Terms by James Fitton Couch (1920)
"Properties common to groups of substances, ie col- ligative properties, the property of ionizing, etc. Groups, Atomic. I. Radicals. 2. ..."

5. A Tractate on Language: With Observations on the French Tongue, Eastern by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll (1860)
"... and give mass and continuity to accumulative sounds, but they are not ligative sounds like consonants. Primitive letters are found in all alphabets, ..."

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