Lexic.us

Definition of Copulative

1. Adjective. Syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence. "`and' is a copulative conjunction"

2. Noun. An equating verb (such as 'be' or 'become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence.

Definition of Copulative

1. a. Serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like "and".

2. n. Connection.

Definition of Copulative

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to copulation ¹

2. Adjective. (grammar) that acts as a copula ¹

3. Adjective. (grammar) that connects the subject of a clause with its complement ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Copulative

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Copulative

copublishing copula copula linguae copulae copular copular verb copular verbs copulas copulated copulates

copulateth copulating copulations copulative (current term) copulative conjunction copulatively copulatives copulatory copurification copurified

copurifies copurify copurifying copy copy-cat copy-cats copy-number variant copy and paste

Literary usage of Copulative

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

1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"2) Condition copulative» What is | and how to be performed* t. ... was in the copulative ; and e contra if it was not in the cafe of death* Br. Conditions, ..."

2. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1913)
"I. copulative Compounds. 1252. Two or more nouns — much lees often adjectives, and, in an instance or two, adverbs having a coordinate construction, ..."

3. Philological Studies: With English Illustrations by Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Ferdinand Becker (1857)
"The copulative combination of two or more sentences or propositions, all of equal logical ... THE varieties of the copulative combination are as follows. ..."

4. Elementary English Spoken and Written by Lamont Foster Hodge, Arthur Lee (1921)
"copulative VERBS AND THEIR COMPLEMENTS A complete predicate expresses something that is ... Such a coupling or linking verb is called a copulative verb. ..."

5. A Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Language: Comprising Those by J. Torrend (1891)
"Looking back to the various copulative particles which have been ... 2° The Senna and Karanga copulative particle ndi, as in ndi moto " it is fire " ..."

6. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"A predicate substantive or adjective may often be distinguished from an attributive in that the former implies a form of eî/u or some similar copulative ..."

7. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"They are of three classes :— (a) copulative Propositions, where we have a simple combination ... Everything said above of copulative Propositions applies to ..."

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