| 单词 |
elative |
| 释义 |
eˈlative, a. (and n.)
[as if ad. L. *ēlātīvus: see elate v. and -ive.]
†a. That raises, elevates. (obs. rare).
b. That elates, causes elation. rare.
c. Gram. Having a superlative or intensive force. Also absol.
d. Gram. Denoting the case used in some languages to express motion away from. Also absol.
1595Lodge Fig for Momus i, By their attracted moyst humiditie, Drawne from a certain vertue elative..Seeke more than their accustom'd nutriment Whence raine his generation doth derive. 1838Struthers Poetic Tales 125 Thither shall gratitude's feelings elative wend. 1860Trans. Philol. Soc. 1857 34 The declension of the personal pronouns [in the Tushi language] is as follows..Elative..Comitative..Terminative. 1906J. H. Moulton Gram. N.T. Greek I. v. 78 In the NT the obsolescence of the superlative, except in the elative sense, is most marked. Ibid. 79 Mt 1120 may show the elative—‘those very numerous mighty works’. Ibid. 97 The repetition of an adjective produces an elative. 1915A. H. McNeile St. Matt. 59/2 Ἐλάχιστος..may be elative, ‘very small’. 1922Foakes-Jackson & Lake Beginnings Christianity II. 505 This is what the grammarians call an elative superlative. 1951Archivum Linguisticum III. i. 60 An elative-ablative type of case suffix. 1959J. C. Catford in Quirk & Smith Teaching of English vi. 186 Roughly the same field is covered by the system of ‘local cases’ in Finnish.. ‘illative’..‘ablative’..‘elative’. |
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单词 elation 释义 elation|len|Also 4–5 elacion, 5 elacyoun, 5–6 elacyon, 6 elatioun.[In ......