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expective

adj

Etymology

From expect + -ive.

  1. borrowed from expectāre
  2. suffixed as expective — “expect + ive”

Definitions

  1. expectative

    • This expective treatment is followed for two or even three hours before the placenta is expressed by manual interference

  2. A verb form in some native American languages that implies expectation of an action, as…

    A verb form in some native American languages that implies expectation of an action, as opposed to the report of an action or a general statement about the type of action.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for expective. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA