ordinative, a. and n.
(ˈɔːdɪnətɪv)
[ad. late L. ordinātīvus (Tertull.), f. ppl. stem. of ordināre to ordain: see -ative.]
A. adj. Having the character or function of ordaining, ordering, determining, or regulating; of the nature of ordination or ordering. Now rare.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 142 These internal beginnings of things they called hypostatical, vertual, and ordinatiue beginnings. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 156 For these, being but the executive only, may either be directed or diverted by the intellectuall and ordinative. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 481 The holy God, in al his..gubernation about sin, whether it be permissive or ordinative, is gloriosely vindicated from being the Author..of sin. |
B. n. A particle which ordinates clauses. rare. (Cf. L. ordinativa adverbia in Priscian.)
| 1845 Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. I. 172/1 ‘Where’ is an ordinative of place in the following passage. ‘He rails Even there, where merchants most do congregate.’ |