| 单词 |
completive |
| 释义 |
completive, a.|kəmˈpliːtɪv|
[ad. L. complētiv-us ‘serving for filling up’, f. complēt-; see complete v. and -ive. Cf. F. complétif. (Both terms of grammar.)]
Having the attribute of completing; serving for completion (of).
completive tense (Harris): = completed or perfect tense.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 75 Virtue is termed by Basil..completive of Nature. 1750Harris Hermes Wks. (1841) 154 The middle tenses, (which express time as extended and passing,) and the pefect or completive, which express its completion or end. 1862F. Hall Hindu Dramaturgy (1865) 11 The articulations are the initial..the speculative, and the completive. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. xxii. 314 Notes explanatory and completive. 1887W. S. Pratt in W. Gladden Parish Problems 454 In no sense preparatory, but rather confirmatory or completive.
Hence comˈpletively adv., in a completive manner, by way of completion.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 317 Remission is but a Relative change, and Baptism I confess a moral instrument of conferring it completively. |
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