Citations:finative

English citations of finative

Adjectives

decisive, final

• 1593, Greene, Newes both from Heaven and Hell:

  Richard had no sooner thus added his finative conclusion, but we might sodainly heare a loud and pitteous skrike.

• 2012, Wim van den Dungen, Critique of a Metaphysics of Process, page 153:

  Each actual occasion has a physical (efficient, objective) and a mental (finative, subjective) mode; its horizontal and vertical vectors, respectively.

A grammatical case representing something that is striven for

• 1987, René Dirven, Günter Radden, Concepts of Case, page 100:

  The inferior cases realized only as valency complements are Objective, Resultative, Themative, Percipitive, and Finative.

Nouns

?? possibly a typo for fixative

• 1941 January, Alan C Lendrum, “On the fixation of post‐mortem material”, in The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, volume 52, number 1:

  Formalin may indeed maintain its place as a special fixative for certain rare and specialised techniques but for general use by itself formalin solution is a bad finative for post-mortem material.

• 2013 November, N Mohanty, R Paikaray, “A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BINARY MIXTURE OF DI-N-BUTYL PHTHALATE (DBP) WITH ANILINE AND TOLUENE AT DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES”, in Acoustics 2013, New Delhi:

  It is used in printing ink, adhesives, paper coating, film coating, lubricating glass fibre, nail polish, hair spray, perfume solvent, finative, antifoamer, mosquito repellant etc. and above all it is used as a rocket fuel