Illative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or of the nature of an illation.
  • adj. Expressing or preceding an inference. Used of a word.
  • adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a grammatical case indicating motion toward or into in some languages, as in Finnish Helsinkiin, "to Helsinki.”
  • n. A word or phrase, such as hence or for that reason, that expresses an inference.
  • n. See illation.
  • n. Grammar The illative case.
  • n. Grammar A word or form in the illative case.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. of, or relating to an illation
  • adj. of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something
  • n. a word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as therefore)
  • n. an illation
  • n. the illative case, or a word in that case
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive
  • n. An illative particle, as for, because.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating to illation; drawing or able to draw inferences.
  • Due to illation; inferential; inferred.
  • Denoting an inference: as, an illative word or particle, as then and therefore.
  • n. That which denotes illation or inference.
  • n. An illative particle.
  • In grammar, noting the case expressing motion into. See introessive.
  • n. In grammar, the illative case.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
  • adj. resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
  • adj. expressing or preceding an inference
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