recusative

adj
/ɹɪˈkjuːzətɪv/

Etymology

From the Late Latin recūsātīvus (“prohibitory”).

  1. derived from recūsātīvus — “prohibitory

Definitions

  1. 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
  2. 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