FACTIVE

Etymology 1

Adjective

factive (not comparable)

(grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.

(epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.

Noun

factive (plural factives)

(grammar) A factive verb.

Etymology 2

Adjective

factive (not comparable)

(obsolete) Making.

Source: Wiktionary


Fac"tive, a.

Definition: Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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NEGLECT

(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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