Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Giving or constituting a name; naming.
- adjective Formed from a noun or adjective.
- noun A word, especially a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of receiving a denomination or name; namable.
- Constituting a distinct appellation; appellative; naming.
- In grammar, formed from a noun- or adjective-stem: applied especially to verbs so made.
- noun That which has the character of a denomination, or term that denominates or describes.
- noun Specifically, in grammar, a word, especially a verb, formed from a noun, either substantive or adjective.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A denominative name or term; denominative verb.
- adjective Conferring a denomination or name.
- adjective (Logic) Connotative.
- adjective Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
- adjective (Gram.) Derived from a substantive or an adjective.
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- adjective deriving from a
noun , or from anadjective , such as the verbdestruct from the noundestruction . - adjective being a
name - noun a
verb that is derived from a noun or adjective
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even when certain verbs called denominative are derived from nominal stems, these latter are generally found to be radically dependent on other verbal forms.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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No one has ever found the linguistic prototype or origin of this curious denominative, but it is not unremarkable that in the Gospel of John he is also called "Judas the son" or "brother of Simon Iscariot" and, at one point, even "the Iscariot" (cf. John 6: 71, 14: 22, etc.).
Robert Eisenman: Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth? 2009
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No one has ever found the linguistic prototype or origin of this curious denominative, but it is not unremarkable that in the Gospel of John he is also called "Judas the son" or "brother of Simon Iscariot" and, at one point, even "the Iscariot" (cf. John 6: 71, 14: 22, etc.).
Robert Eisenman: Gospel Fiction and the Redemonization of Judas 2008
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But when one of these denominative terms is present in the subject, there must be present another denominative term that follows on it necessarily which is the predicate, as in: everything walking is moving.
Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic Street, Tony 2008
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No one has ever found the linguistic prototype or origin of this curious denominative in a manner that would satisfy everyone, but it is also not unremarkable that in the Gospel of John he is also called 'Judas the son' or 'brother of Simon Iscariot' and at one point even 'Judas the Iscariot' (John 6: 71, 14: 22, etc.).
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The former necessarily entail singular substances as their substrates, since individuals alone can undergo change, while the latter can directly inhere in both individual and universal substances (insunt denominative tam communibus quam singularibus - De universalibus, p. 188).
William Penbygull Conti, Alessandro 2006
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E.g. the injunction indeed a denominative verb here "Sodemieter op!" means "scram"!
languagehat.com: SO. 2005
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A denominative term such as ˜white™ signifies by imposition a substance that is white, but it signifies by representation the whiteness inhering in the substance.
Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy Lagerlund, Henrik 2004
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But the fact that aliha is probably not an independent verbal stem but only a denominative from ilah, signifying originally "possessed of God" (cf. enthousiazein, daimonan) renders the explanation more than precarious.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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An amusing application of such a territorial denominative system to the locality of London was narrated to me by a friend who witnessed it.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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