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Meaning of "illative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ILLATIVE

From Late Latin illātīvus inferring, concluding.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ILLATIVE

ɪˈleɪtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILLATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Illative can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ILLATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Illative case

Illative is, in the Finnish language, Estonian language and the Hungarian language, the third of the locative cases with the basic meaning of "into ". An example from Hungarian is "a házba". An example from Estonian is "majasse" and "majja", formed from "maja". An example from Finnish is "taloon", formed from "talo".

Definition of illative in the English dictionary

The first definition of illative in the dictionary is of or relating to illation; inferential. Other definition of illative is denoting a word or morpheme used to signal inference, for example so or therefore. Illative is also the illative case.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ILLATIVE

collative · contemplative · creative · dilative · gesticulative · inflative · innovative · isolative · modulative · mutilative · native · nomenclative · oppilative · oscillative · percolative · prolative · revelative · titillative · translative · ventilative

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILLATIVE

ill-suited · ill-tempered · ill-temperedly · ill-timed · ill-treat · ill-treatment · ill-use · Ill. · Illampu · illation · illatively · Illawarra · Ille-et-Vilaine · illegal · illegal alien · illegal immigrant · illegalisation · illegalise · illegality · illegalization

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILLATIVE

active · administrative · alternative · collaborative · comparative · conservative · cooperative · cumulative · decorative · derivative · in the negative · informative · initiative · legislative · narrative · negative · operative · qualitative · quantitative · relative · representative

Synonyms and antonyms of illative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «illative» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ILLATIVE

Find out the translation of illative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of illative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «illative» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

illative
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

ilativo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

illative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

illative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

illative
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

illative
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

ilativo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সূত্রমূলক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

illatif
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Illative
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Illativ
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

illative
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

illative
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Illative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kết thúc
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

அனுமானம் குறித்த
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सूचक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

illative
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

illative
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

illative
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

illative
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

illative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

illative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

illative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

illative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

illativ
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of illative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ILLATIVE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of illative
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about illative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILLATIVE»

Discover the use of illative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to illative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mental Philosophy of John Henry Newman
No other notion in the Grammar is as famous or infamous as the illative sense, and while Newman regards it as something quite ordinary with which we are all familiar, readers have taken rather different views of his invocation of it. To some  ...
Jay Newman, 1986
2
Personal Catholicism: The Theological Epistemologies of John ...
I. Newman's Notion of the Illative Sense This chapter gives a brief synopsis of Newman's major work in epis- temology; the next chapter similarly summarizes Polanyi's position. The goal of this chapter is to link a series of concepts to each ...
Martin X. Moleski, 2000
3
John Henry Newman: A View of Catholic Faith for the New ...
So personal is the judgment of the illative sense that it is unique to each individual. Newman writes, "It is seated in the mind of the individual, who is thus his own law, his own teacher, and his own judge in those special cases of duty which are ...
John R. Connolly, 2005
4
Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives
Illative Sense. The idea of retroductive warrants from experience can also be illustrated by John Henry Newman's notion of an illative sense.194 This notion of the illative sense has in particular influenced twentieth-century Roman Catholic ...
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, John P. Galvin, 1991
5
Communities of Informed Judgment: Newman's Illative Sense ...
of the illative sense,but exploring them is beyond the scope of this project.Since the corpus of Newman's writings is not a systematic collection of writings but a series of responses to particular issues, developing his thought can be an onerous ...
Frederick D. Aquino, 2004
6
Explorations in Nominal Inflection
In nouns with trimoraic partitive singulars, the partitive singular is already an eligible illative singular. Thus the bimoraic partitive singulars pesa or elu ('life') correspond to the short illatives `pessa and `ellu, with overlong initial syllables.
Gereon Müller, Lutz Gunkel, Gisela Zifonun, 2004
7
Provability, Computability and Reflection
I 6), illative combinatory logic deals with combinators in connection with other obs representing the usual logical notions, such as implication, conjunction, quantification, semantical categories, etc. On that basis we divided the field of illative ...
Lev D. Beklemishev, 2009
8
Newman's Approach to Knowledge
The Illative Sense Norris claims that Newman's Illative Sense is 'his most original achievement'.34 I think that in general terms, as mentioned in the previous chapter, the Illative Sense can be identified in the thought of Aquinas with the active ...
Laurence Richardson, 2007
9
Linguistica Uralica
Table 3 Responses of 50 listeners to 48 test items produced by three speakers Produced as Perceived as Partitive Illative Partitive 583 617 Illative 590 610 In the terminology of detection theory, the case of partitive heard as partitive is called a ...
10
Groundwork in the Theory of Argumentation: Selected Papers ...
Illative. Core. Analysis. and. Evaluation. As we have seen, argument management calls upon the insights of a variety of theoretical fields. Communication theory is the umbrella under which most of these belong. It encompasses rhetoric ...
J. Anthony Blair, Christopher W. Tindale, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILLATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term illative is used in the context of the following news items.
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Landmarks review – Robert Macfarlane finds poetry in the peatlands
... endlessly added to and adumbrated; that it might teach us to be illative – its words bringing places and sensations alive in our using of them. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
2
Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic
... upon the mind, in hints and fragments, not systematically,” he wrote. “My illative sense began to stir in the story shadow of the Camel's Back.”. «Catholic World Report, Jul 14»
3
We Should Mind Our Own Beeswax and Let the Pope be Pope
Newman wrote of the “infinite abyss of existence” that is each individual soul, and about the mysterious subjectivity of “the illative sense” – the ... «Aleteia, Oct 13»
4
Converging and Convincing Proof of God: Mystical Encounters with …
... biological, psychological, and empirical sciences and rely on a broader illative sense or what the medieval theologians called intellectus. «Catholic Online, Nov 12»
5
Converging and Convincing Proof of God: Perfection is Real
... TX (Catholic Online) - In prior articles of this series on converging and convincing proofs of God, we have spoken about the illative sense. «Catholic Online, Nov 12»
6
Converging and Convincing Proof of God: Argument from Desire
Human desire is one of those universal human experiences upon which the illative sense can be applied to come to a conclusion, based upon ... «Catholic Online, Nov 12»
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Converging and Convincing Proof of God: Cardinal Newman and …
The illative sense is what allows us to take our concrete human experiences--whether they be of nature's beauty, of the demands of conscience ... «Catholic Online, Nov 12»
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Converging and Convincing Proof of God: Introduction
Relying on the excellent work of Aidan Nichols, O.P., A Grammar of Consent, we will draw from the insights of the "illative sense" in the thought ... «Catholic Online, Oct 12»
9
In Praise of Blessed John Henry Newman
One might point to his unique treatment on faith in his Grammar of Assent (where he advocated something called the "illative sense") was an ... «Catholic Online, Oct 12»
10
Newman's Assent of Faith
He called this the illative faculty or sense. This is a natural mode of reasoning which in unconscious and implicit; it goes from concrete thing to ... «First Things, Feb 11»
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