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separative |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Separative \Sep"a*ra*tive\, a. [L. separativus.] Causing, or being to cause separation. ``Separative virtue of extreme cold.'' --Boyle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: separative adj 1: (Hebrew orthography; used of an accent) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word at follows it 2: serving to separate or divide into parts "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative" [syn: {partitive}] 3: (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group "whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group `which' in `which of the men' is separative"
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