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Definition of Explicative
1. a. Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.
Definition of Explicative
1. Adjective. Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Explicative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explicative
Literary usage of Explicative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"explicative JUDGMENTS. § 16. The judgments we have so far considered make ...
We must also include in the class of explicative judgments those which seem, ..."
2. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"explicative and Ampliative Judgments. Some judgments* are merely ... They are
called explicative (or analytic) judgments, because they unfold the meaning of ..."
3. The Formal Bases of Law by Giorgio Del Vecchio (1914)
"explicative NORMS. § 112. Law is Based upon Ethical Co-ordination. Our observation
up to this point has shown us that law in its essence requires a relation ..."
4. Reason, Thought, and Language; Or, The Many and the One: A Revised System of by Douglas Macleane (1906)
"Analytic Judgements have also been called explicative, Elucidatory, Immediate,1
Necessary, Essential, in contrast with Informative, Mediate, Contingent or ..."
5. Language and Languages: Being "Chapters on Language" and "Families of Speech" by Frederic William Farrar (1878)
"We see then, from watching the laws and instincts still at work, that words not
self-explicative would have had no chance of obtaining currency at the dawn ..."
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