English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/, /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/

Adjective

abdicative ‎(comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)

1. (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin abdicativus

Noun

abdicative ‎(plural abdicatives)

1. (logic) A reasoning from the negative
   • 1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius:

     The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.

Latin

Adjective

abdicatīve

1. vocative masculine singular of abdicatīvus

References

• abdicative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abdicative”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.