predeˈterminative, a. rare.
[f. predetermine or predeterminate v.: see -ative.]
1. Having the quality of predetermining.
| a 1678 Marvell Def. J. Howe Wks. (Grosart) IV. 170 If men shall also assert a predeterminative concourse of God to our wil, it seems to have too much of original perverseness. 1678 Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 23 This efficacious concurse, as it determines and applies the second cause to act, is both in sacred Scripture and by scholastic Theologues termed determinative and predeterminative. |
2. Gram. Having the quality of, or acting as, a predeterminer.
| 1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts ii. 42 In only John the adverb only is essentially predeterminative exactly as it is in only the older children. |