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Webster 1913 Edition
Cumulative
Cu′mu-la-tive
(k?′m?-l?-t?v)
, Adj.
[Cf. F.
cumulatif
.] 1.
Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
“As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original.” Bacon
2.
Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions;
as, a
. cumulative
argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceedsThe argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and
cumulative
. Trench.
3.
(Law)
(a)
Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; – said of evidence.
(b)
Given by same testator to the same legatee; – said of a legacy.
Bouvier.
Wharton.
Cumulative action
(Med.)
, that action of certain drugs, by virtue of which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large dose.
– Cumulative poison
, a poison the action of which is cumulative.
– Cumulative vote
or
Cumulative system of voting
(Politics)
, that system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cumulative
CUMULATIVE
,Adj.
1.
Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass.2.
That augments by addition; that is added to something else. In law, that augments, as evidence, facts or arguments of the same kind.