Sentence example with the word 'determinative'

determinative

absolute, behind the scenes, circumstantial, determiner, eye-witness, hearsay, institutive, material, polar, suggestive

Definition adj. having the power or quality of deciding

Last update: October 10, 2015


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En-lil is associated with the ancient city of Nippur, and since En-lil with the determinative for "land" or "district" is a common method of writing the name of the city, it follows, apart from other evidence, that En-lil was originally the patron deity of Nippur.   [Please select]

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The years since that determinative hour in the Richmond book-shop had been well harvested.   [Please select]

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The Chinese, therefore, took the same sign for all these meanings of _fang_, but added to each of them another distinctive sign, the determinative, to show what sort of _fang_ was intended.   [Please select]

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Here, again, we need a determinative; we might add the two crossed swords, a sign which is used very often upon maps to denote a battle.   [Please select]

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