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Definition of Applicative
1. Adjective. Readily applicable or practical.
Similar to: Practical
Derivative terms: Apply, Apply, Apply, Apply, Apply, Apply
Definition of Applicative
1. a. Capable of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.
Definition of Applicative
1. Adjective. Having practical application; applicable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Applicative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Applicative
Literary usage of Applicative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1805)
"11. The Framing employed to raise the Roof of Clapham Church. 12. An improved
Sheep Fold, by T. Plowman, Esq. 13, applicative Compass, ..."
2. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1806)
"... instantaneous changes, is an attempt to violate nature, and must necessarily
fail in the execution. applicative Compass for taking Bearings on a Chart. ..."
3. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"It should be noted that the applicative verb functions as a normal verb ...
the suffix, the preterit applicative being then identical with the normal stem, ..."
4. Transactions of the American Ethnological Society by American Ethnological Society, Albert Gallatin, Horatio Hale (1845)
"The applicative of itoa, to say, to speak, ... to have the office of interpreter ;
the applicative of which (prefixing te) is tena- ..."
5. Logic: Or, The Science of Inference. A Systematic View of the Principles of by Joseph Devey (1854)
"In affirmative syllogisms it is frequently optional which premiss is assumed to
be the containing or applicative proposition, as each will contain the ..."
6. A Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Languages: Comprising Those by J. Torrend (1891)
"The applicative verb adds to the simple the meaning of one of our relational
prepositions for, to, into, round, etc. Its proper suffix is -ila or -ela, ..."
7. The Port-Royal Logic by Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole (1861)
"... that which we called the containing does in reality contain what we wish to
prove, and this one may be called applicative [propositio applicative^]. ..."
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