translative, a.
(trɑːnsˈleɪtɪv, træns-, ˈtrɑːnslətɪv, ˈtræns-, -nz-)
[ad. L. translātīv-us pertaining to transfer or translation (see translate and -ive); cf. F. translatif (14th c.) in legal use.]
Involving or of the nature of translation (in various senses).
† 1. Involving transference of meaning; metaphorical, tropical. Obs.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. iii. (Arb.) 81 If our feete Poeticall want these qualities it can not be sayd a foote in sence translatiue as here. Ibid. iii. xviii. 197 Properly..Allegoria is when we do speake in sence translatiue and wrested from the owne signification. |
2. Involving transference from one place to another; in Physics, of the nature of onward movement without rotation or reciprocation.
| a 1682 Sir T. Browne Wks. (1835) IV. 370 We may improve their fruits without translative conjunction, that is, by insition of the scion upon his own mother. 1740 Stack in Phil. Trans. XLI. 418 It is allowed, that the translative Velocities of its Points cannot be in an inverted Ratio to the Roots of the Distances. 1875 Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. (1877) 27 Watch the Brownian movements; note that they are simply oscillatory—not translative. 1883 Nature 15 Mar. 459/1 A screw's motion, which is partly translative along and partly rotative round a polar axis. |
3. Tending or serving to translate or render; relating to translation, translational.
| 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. xi. 62 As the translative impulse (pardon a new word..) came upon me. 1819 G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 319 The sense of the Greek translative Diathekè is thus determined by the sense of the Hebrew original Berith. 1882 W. Sharp Rossetti iv. 311 Renderings specially admirable for translative excellence and inherent poetic merit. |
4. Law. Expressing or constituting transference of property, etc.
| 1875 Poste Gaius ii. Comm. (ed. 2) 172 Mancipation..might be used as a formality..of contract either translative or obligative. |
5. Gram. (See quot. 1905.)
| 1896 Edin. Rev. Jan. 84 The student [of Finnish] must remember the nominative, partitive,..prolative, translative, essive..and instructive [cases]. 1905 Jespersen Hist. Eng. Lang. 9 Translative, indicating the state into which anyone or anything passes. |