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Definition of Separative

1. Adjective. (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it.

2. Adjective. Serving to separate or divide into parts. "The uniting influence was stronger than the separative"

3. Adjective. (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group. "Whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative"

Definition of Separative

1. a. Causing, or being to cause, separation.

Definition of Separative

1. Adjective. Serving to separate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Separative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Separative

separation anxiety disorders separation energy separation of concerns separation of powers separation of retina separation of teeth separationist separationists separations separations of powers

separatism separatisms separatist separatistic separatists separative (current term) separator separators separatory separatrices

separatrix separatrixes separatum sepawn sepawns seperate seperately seperation seperator sephen

Literary usage of Separative

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

1. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"... separative Genitive. §. 530. 1. The notion of removal or separation implies the antecedent conception of a point whence the motion began ; hence all ..."

2. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"... separative Genitive. §. 530. 1. The notion of removal or separation implies the antecedent conception of a point whence the motion began ; hence all ..."

3. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1881)
"separative Genitive. §. 530. l . The notion of motion, removal or separation, implies the antecedent conception of a point whence the motion began ; hence ..."

4. The Paraná: With Incidents of the Paraguayan War, and South American by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1868)
"... 1826 — This Law modified in 1828 — With Provision that Foreigners should be excluded — Law of 1830, entitled separative — Decree of 1832, abolishing all ..."

5. The Holy Land by William Hepworth Dixon (1865)
"... was the elevation of a fighting sect to power; the general adoption of separative principles; the substitution of an explanatory law for the Covenant; ..."

6. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1861)
"On the separative Process in Human Tendons, after Subcutaneous Division for the Cure of Deformities. :By WILLIAM ADAMS, FRCS, Surgeon to the Royal ..."

7. Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Society by Indiana State Medical Society (1892)
"separative nerve surgery, conducted upon a definite scientific basis, is practically a development of the past decade. It was not until the publication by ..."

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