Recusative

//ɹɪˈkjuːzətɪv// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Refusing; denying; rejecting of the norm. obsolete, rare

    "it is acquisitive and effective , or recusative and destructive , otherwise than it is in any other faculties"

  2. 2
    Including the word 'not' (or its equivalent).

    "A sentence which is negative (in meaning) is not always recusative (containing the word 'not'), and vice versa: a propositive syntagm need not always be positive."

Example

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"it is acquisitive and effective , or recusative and destructive , otherwise than it is in any other faculties"

Etymology

From the Late Latin recūsātīvus (“prohibitory”).

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