recusative
adj/ɹɪˈkjuːzətɪv/
Etymology
From the Late Latin recūsātīvus (“prohibitory”).
Definitions
Refusing
Refusing; denying; rejecting of the norm.
- it is acquisitive and effective , or recusative and destructive , otherwise than it is in any other faculties
- On Tír, it was only the recusative priests who painted their faces —they painted them black, along with the palms of their hands
Including the word 'not' (or its equivalent).
- A sentence which is negative (in meaning) is not always recusative (containing the word 'not'), and vice versa: a propositive syntagm need not always be positive.
- In recusative negation the negative element is separable from the rest of the utterance which can act as an autonomous non-negative utterance.
- Exceptions are found in some Central/North Dravidian languages which developed a recusative type of negation under the influence of Indo-Aryan/Iranian languages.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for recusative. 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