illative
IPA: ɪɫeɪtɪv
noun
- (grammar) A word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore).
- An illation.
- (grammar) The illative case, or a word in that case.
adjective
- Of, or relating to an illation.
- (grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something.
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Examples of "illative" in Sentences
- That this verse contains a conclusion, is evident from the illative particle
- Chesterton was really saying by a comparison with the "illative sense" of Cardinal Newman.
- How ever, it is certain, that, by the former kind of merely illative necessity, the thing decreed will assuredly have its event.
- The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative.
- According to Johnson, traditional logic has focused too much on the illative core, though a rational arguer must pay as much attention to its dialectical tier.
- A man can reason well about familiar matter; but, unless he has explicitly examined the illative process, he will hesitate and err when dealing with new subject-matter.
- From that basic meaning, a sense of illative (ie. going into something) rather than inessive (ie. being in something) may sometimes surface secondarily where verbs of motion are used, such as in my above example with far.
- I answer, No; for there is a great deal of difference between a mere illative necessity, which consists only in the logical consequence of one thing upon another, and between a causal necessity, which efficiently and antecedently determines and puts the faculty upon working.
- If in this verse is not signified Christ's taking on him our nature, how comes it to pass, that, in the next verse, which has an illative dependence upon this, the seed of Abraham are called his brethren? for his being their deliverer only would not make them his brethren; but his taking of our nature properly does.
- For the proving of which, I shall premise this one note, (which indeed is clear of itself from the very illative particle therefore,) that this and the following verse are so joined together, as to make up one argument; of which argument this verse is the antecedent, and the other the consequent, or inference drawn from it.