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Definition of Configurative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Configurative
Literary usage of Configurative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Smithsonian Institution (1865)
"Let us remark here, that the anomalous configurative forces, to which we have
just had reference, could form, in each large division, only one constriction ..."
2. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-lists by Henry Sweet (1888)
"If the configurative passage of an open breath consonant is progressively enlarged,
the acoustic effect of its position becomes more and more indistinct, ..."
3. On Early English Pronunciation: With Special Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, William Salesbury, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Francis James Child, Alexander Barclay, Johan Winkler (1874)
"Following other symbols, SI denotes configurative compression, with consequent
percussion on leaving the configuration, and 9«i denotes configurative ..."
4. An Epitome of the History of Philosophy: Being the Work Adopted by the by Caleb Sprague Henry (1869)
"Ideas being with him nothing but certain determinate, configurative vibrations,
it was a matter of course to find him analyzing Locke's theory of the origin ..."
5. Visible Speech: The Science ... of Universal Alphabetics; Or Self by Alexander Melville Bell (1867)
"The 'Primary' and the 'Wide' Vowels have the same oral configuration!; but for
the 'Wide' sounds, the voice channel from the throat to the configurative ..."
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