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Definition of Precative
1. Adjective. Expressing entreaty or supplication. "Precatory overtures"
Definition of Precative
1. a. Suppliant; beseeching.
Definition of Precative
1. Adjective. Resembling or pertaining to an entreaty. ¹
2. Noun. (grammar) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Precative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precative
Literary usage of Precative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Hindūstānī Or Urdū Language by John Thompson Platts (1874)
"The second of the precative forms, however, often has the force of a command ...
The Imperative, and the precative ending in iye, are used with reference to ..."
2. Assyrian Grammar with Paradigms, Exercises, Glossary and Bibliography by Friedrich Delitzsch (1889)
"Also in precative forms: ... Assyrian forms a precative by means of the adverb
lu 'verily' (v. § 78). With the forms of the preterite that begin with a ..."
3. A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language for the Use of Early Students by Theodor Benfrey (1863)
"... imperative, potential, reduplicated perfect, aorist, second future, conditional ,
or precative , in general is not composed with the verbal form, ..."
4. A Sanskrit handbook for the fireside by Elihu Burritt (1876)
"precative. This mood closely resembles the optative, and mostly differs from it
by inserting ^ s before the terminations for persons. ..."
5. Grammar of the Temne Language by Christian Frederick Schlenker (1864)
"6) Optative or precative Mood. § 158. This indicates a wish that some event might
take place, and is expressed in two ways, viz. ..."
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