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Definition of Abstractive
1. Adjective. Of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting. "Abstractive analysis"
Definition of Abstractive
1. a. Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.
Definition of Abstractive
1. Adjective. Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. ¹
2. Adjective. Derived by abstraction; belonging to abstraction. ¹
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Definition of Abstractive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstractive
Literary usage of Abstractive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge by Alfred North Whitehead (1919)
"CHAPTER X FINITE abstractive ELEMENTS 37. Absolute Primes and Event-Particles.
37-1 It follows from the principles of convergence to simplicity with ..."
2. Ancient Christianity, and the Doctrines of the Oxford Tracts for the Times by Isaac Taylor (1844)
"The abstractive doctrine, and the penitential, both admitted by the ancient church.
... Combination of the Buddhist, or abstractive, and the Brahminical, ..."
3. Home Education by Isaac Taylor (1867)
"... THE EXPANSION OF THE abstractive AND REASONING FACULTIES. WE come now to what
must be called, not indeed a resting place ; but rather a turning point, ..."
4. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"... in the light which is communicated through a knowledge of the nature and
operations of the human mind. CHAPTER XIII. ABSTRACTION. THE abstractive POWEE. ..."
5. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"THE abstractive POWER. § 134. Abstraction implied in the analysis of complex ideas.
THE remarks which have been made in the course of the foregoing chapter, ..."
6. The Human Mind: A Treatise in Mental Philosophy by Edward John Hamilton (1883)
"... first, in the clear abstractive perception of things, and especially of
relations, and, secondly, in connected logical thinking, or, as it has been ..."
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