TRANSLATIVE Definition & Meaning

translative

[ trans-ley-tiv, tranz-, trans-ley-, tranz- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to the transfer of something from one person, position, or place to another.
of translation; serving to translate.
Grammar. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate a change from one state into another.

noun

the translative case.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of translative¹

1580–90; < Latin �ٰ��Բ��ī��ܲ�, equivalent to �ٰ��Բ�� ( us ) ( translate ) + -ī��ܲ� -ive

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This translative action, as it is technically called, commences ordinarily in about three fathoms water, and is most violent in six or eight feet depths, within which the sea breaks.

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All affirmations about God are made "non proprie sed translative"; all negations "non translative sed proprie."

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These movements are produced by three sorts of action: Sectional action, rotary action and translative action.

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