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Definition of Terminative
1. Adjective. Coming to an end. "A contract terminative with the end of the war"
Definition of Terminative
1. a. Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.
Definition of Terminative
1. Adjective. of, or relating to the termination of something ¹
2. Adjective. (linguistics) of, or relating to the terminative case ¹
3. Noun. the terminative case ¹
4. Noun. a word in the terminative case ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Terminative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terminative
Literary usage of Terminative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Japanese Grammar by Johann Joseph Hoffmann (1868)
"terminative, the direction whither, signifying to which (to what, to whom),
provided the movement directed towards an object extends to within its limits or ..."
2. An Analysis of the French Orthography; Or, The True Principles of the French by Sauseuil (Jean-Nicolas), Jean Nicolas Jouin de Sauseuill (1772)
"The French terminative has the ... repugnance in the world to it's remaining thus
a terminative , and the moft ... that terminative upon it, ..."
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