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discretive


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Discretive  \Dis*cre"tive\,  a.  [L.  discretivus  See  {Discrete}.] 
  Marking  distinction  or  separation;  disjunctive. 
 
  {Discretive  proposition}  (Logic  &  Gram.),  one  that  expresses 
  distinction,  opposition,  or  variety,  by  means  of 
  discretive  particles,  as  but  though,  yet  etc.;  as 
  travelers  change  their  climate,  but  not  their  temper.