Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rising; relating to the rising of a star; orient; eastern.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern.
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- adjective Of or relating to the time or act of
rising ;eastern .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ortive also bears mathematical significance: the phrase "numeration ortive" signifies "that part of arithmetic which deals with multiplication, division" as distinguished from "numeration original," which represents addition and subtraction.
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I'm a member of a number of online communities, and I must admit that this one is the least supp. ortive, the has the highest bully quotient, and has the most sniping.
Wired Campus 2010
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I'm a member of a number of online communities, and I must admit that this one is the least supp. ortive, the has the highest bully quotient, and has the most sniping.
Wired Campus 2010
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I'm a member of a number of online communities, and I must admit that this one is the least supp. ortive, the has the highest bully quotient, and has the most sniping.
Wired Campus 2010
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I'm a member of a number of online communities, and I must admit that this one is the least supp. ortive, the has the highest bully quotient, and has the most sniping.
Wired Campus 2010
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I'm a member of a number of online communities, and I must admit that this one is the least supp. ortive, the has the highest bully quotient, and has the most sniping.
Wired Campus 2010
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I'm a member of a number of online communities, and I must admit that this one is the least supp. ortive, the has the highest bully quotient, and has the most sniping.
Wired Campus 2010
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I'm a member of a number of online communities, and I must admit that this one is the least supp. ortive, the has the highest bully quotient, and has the most sniping.
Wired Campus 2010
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I'm a member of a number of online communities, and I must admit that this one is the least supp. ortive, the has the highest bully quotient, and has the most sniping.
Wired Campus 2010
chained_bear commented on the word ortive
"Ortive, or Eastern Amplitude, in astronomy, is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the point where a star rises, and the east point of the horizon."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 328
October 14, 2008