abdicative

From abdicate +‎ -ive.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/, /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/

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abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)

1. (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.

From Latin abdicativus.

abdicative (plural abdicatives)

1. (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.

abdicative

1. feminine singular of abdicatif

From abdicar +‎ -ative.

abdicative (comparative plus abdicative, superlative le plus abdicative)

1. abdicative (causing, or implying, abdication)

• Alexander Gode (1951) Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language, New York: Storm Publishers, →OL

From abdicatīvus (“negative”) +‎ -ē.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ab.dɪ.kaːˈtiː.weː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ab.d̪i.kaˈt̪iː.ve]

abdicātīvē (not comparable)

1. negatively

abdicātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of abdicātīvus

• “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.