ILLATIVE

illative

(adjective) expressing or preceding an inference; “‘therefore’ is an illative word”

illative, inferential

(adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; “an illative conclusion”; “inferential reasoning”

inferential, illative

(adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; “the illative faculty of the mind”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

illative (not comparable)

of, or relating to an illation

(grammar) of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something

Noun

illative (plural illatives)

(grammar) a word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore)

an illation

(grammar) the illative case, or a word in that case

Anagrams

• veiltail

Source: Wiktionary

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Il"la*tive, a. Etym: [L. illativus: cf. F. illatif.]

Definition: Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true.

– Illative sense (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.

Il"la*tive, n.

Definition: An illative particle, as for, because.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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