sociative, a. Gram.
(ˈsəʊʃɪətɪv)
[ad. F. sociatif, -ive: see sociate v. and -ive.]
Denoting or expressing association.
| 1871 Kennedy Public Sch. Lat. Gram. 437 From this habit of connexion by Relatives, appears to have arisen the use of quod before many Conjunctions as a merely Sociative Particle. 1888 ― Revised Lat. Primer §232 This [the Ablative of Association] includes the uses of an old case called the Sociative Case, expressing the circumstances associated with the Subject or the action of the Sentence. |
| absol. 1886 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XVII. 79 The pure dative, the locative, and the instrumental (including the sociative). |