Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to definition; used in defining.
- Abounding in definitions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or relating to a
definition - adjective used to
define something
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Examples
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A Federal Judge told the city that they cannot have a "definitional" ban.
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Doesn't it sometimes seem as if there's only one kind of definitional argument, and we keep having it again and again?
A Saturday Afternoon Double Feature Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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The contrast subtly destabilises the notion that the "definitional" claims put forward in either of the opening chapters of
Roughtheory.org N Pepperell 2010
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Opponents of marriage equality have recently been shifting somewhat away from the "bad for children" argument in favor of what we might call the "definitional" argument: same-sex
365 Gay News 2010
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Nerd trolls. what Zizek said (youtube) about that kind of definitional debate:
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The problem was "definitional," he continued, and honed on the meaning of the word
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Gotta go with NYU Law Libertarian, for the kind of definitional, letter-of-the-law, manipulative hair-splitting (and circular reasoning) I've come to expect - nay, demand - nay! dread!
feminist blogs 2009
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The kind of definitional jerrymandering you’re attempting doesn’t, to my mind, amount to a useful distinction. raven
Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Again, think about the definitional issues of “all-star game” … too many steves Says:
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On the merits of Mo Williams as a player, totally aside from all-star definitional issues:
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