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illative

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

il=la=tive

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective illative has 3 senses

illative(a = adj.pert) inferential - relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind"
illative(s = adj.all) inferential - resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning"
illative(s = adj.all) Array - expressing or preceding an inference; "`therefore' is an illative word"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

illative, a. [L. illativus: cf. F. illatif.].

Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. [1913 Webster]

Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Illative sense (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.

illative, n.

An illative particle, as for, because. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

illative, adj.
1 a (of a word) stating or introducing an inference. b inferential.
2 Gram. (of a case) denoting motion into.

Derivative

illatively adv.

Etymology

L illativus (as ILLATION)

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