abdicative
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/, /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/
Adjective
abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)
- (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.
Translations
(rare) causing, or implying, abdication
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Etymology 2
From Latin abdicativus
Noun
abdicative (plural abdicatives)
- (logic) A reasoning from the negative
- 1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius:
- The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.
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French
Latin
References
- abdicative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abdicative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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