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Definition of Designative
1. Adjective. Serving to designate.
Definition of Designative
1. a. Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
Definition of Designative
1. Adjective. Serving to designate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Designative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Designative
Literary usage of Designative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Language; Or, Language as an Exact Science: Subjectively by David Henry Cruttenden (1870)
"A designative Adjective is an adjunct, naming a subordinate idea, ... The principal
word of a designative Adjective is sometimes called its Subsequent or ..."
2. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811 by Louis] [Simond (1815)
"... to have passed into their names : most of the smaller ones are composed of
berry and some designative addition tacked to it. The names of birds partake ..."
3. Principles of Public Speaking: Comprising the Techniques of Articulation by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"... Gesture — Classification — designative, Descriptive, Significant, Assertive,
Figurative— Attitude of the Body, the Head, Limbs, and Facial Expression. ..."
4. Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition by John Clark Ridpath (1897)
"Kaffir, as a designative, is collateral with Fu- lah, Bantu, and the like, both
of which words express genera of the Central coast and the upper tributaries ..."
5. Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition by John Clark Ridpath (1899)
"Kaffir, as a designative, is collateral with Fu- lah, Bantu, and the like, both
of which words express genera of the Central coast and the' upper ..."
6. Principles of Public Speaking, Comprising the Technique of Articulation by Guy Carleton Lee (1899)
"CHAPTER VI GESTURE Action in Public Speaking — Value of Gesture — Classification —
designative, Descriptive, Significant, Assertive, Figurative— Attitude of ..."
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