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Definition of Indicatively
1. adv. In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
Definition of Indicatively
1. Adverb. In an indicative manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indicatively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indicatively
Literary usage of Indicatively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philotaxian Grammar: Being a Concise and Lucid Guide to a Knowledge of by Samuel L. Howe (1838)
"Rings is an irregular in transitive verb, signifying to sound as any sonorous
body; and indicatively expresses in the third person, singular number, ..."
2. How to Parse.: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1892)
"Since, according to the proverb, " no one knows what he can do till he tries,"
power may always be regarded (1) as existing though unused, ie indicatively ..."
3. An Exposition of the Gospel of Saint John: Consisting of an Anlysis of Each by John MacEvilly (1889)
"In what sense soever understood, whether indicatively or imperatively, this passage
... Taken indicatively, as they are understood by several Protestant ..."
4. Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1853)
"So far, therefore, as these beings are bodies, or are treated as such, poetry
paints bodies, but only indicatively, by means of actions. ..."
5. Selected Prose Works of G.E. Lessing by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1890)
"So far, therefore, as these beings are bodies, or are regarded as such, poetry
paints bodies, but only indicatively, by means of actions. ..."
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