abdicative

English

Etymology 1

abdicat +‎ -ive

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

French: abdicatif (fr)
German: abdikativ (de)

Latin: abdicativus
Portuguese: abdicativo

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.

French

Adjective

abdicative

feminine singular of abdicatif

Latin

Adjective

abdicatīve

vocative masculine singular of abdicatīvus

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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