Word Meanings - ILLATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion , a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that

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Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion , a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Illative sense , the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.

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• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• CONSEQUENCE
  A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference. 3. Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows
• DENOTE
  1. To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour. The better to denote her to the doctor. Shak. 2. To be the sign of; to betoken;
• CONVERSE
  , a. Etym: Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• CONVERSION
  An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras. (more info) 1. The act of turning or changing
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ILLATIVE
  An illative particle, as for, because.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• DENOTATION
  The marking off or separation of anything. Hammond.
• REVERSEDLY
  In a reversed way.
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• MOUILLATION
  The act of uttering the sound of a mouillé letter.
• LAPILLATION
  The state of being, or the act of making, stony.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• ADENOTOMIC
  Pertaining to adenotomy.
• OBSIGILLATION
  A sealing up. Maunder.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• PISTILLATION
  The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.