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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Determinative

De·ter′mi·na·tive (dē·tẽr′mĭ·nȧ·tĭv), a. [Cf. F. déterminatif.] Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.

Incidents . . . determinative of their course. I. Taylor.

Determinative tables (Nat. Hist.), tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs.

De·ter′mi·na·tive (dē·tẽr′mĭ·nȧ·tĭv), n. That which serves to determine.

Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.