Definition of Formatives

1. Noun. (plural of formative) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Formatives

1. formative [n] - See also: formative

Lexicographical Neighbors of Formatives

formate hydrogen lyase
formated
formates
formating
formatio
formatio reticularis
formation
formation rule
formation rules
formational
formationes
formations
formative
formative cell
formatively
formatives
formats
formattable
formatted
formatted capacity
formatter
formatters
formatting
formattings
formay
formazan
formazans
formboard
formboards
forme

Literary usage of Formatives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"These particles seem originally to have been the formatives of verbal nouns, and the verbs to ... In Tamil, in which these formatives are most largely used ..."

2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"These particles seem originally to have been the formatives of verbal nouns, ... In Tamil, in which these formatives are most largely used and most fully ..."

3. Mithridates Minor, Or, An Essay on Language by Henry Welsford (1848)
"On the Formatives or Terminations of the Greek Verb. This subject could never have remained covered with so thick a veil of mystery, during so long a period ..."

4. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1840)
"which form no less than 25000 characters, the great mas« of the language ;* the; are (he principal formatives, which, like prepositions, particles, ..."

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