Dictionary

recusative en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈkjuːzətɪv/

Etymology

From the Late Latin recūsātīvus (“prohibitory”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) Refusing; denying; rejecting of the norm.
   • On Tír, it was only the recusative priests who painted their faces —they painted them black, along with the palms of their hands 2014, Frank P. Ryan, The Sword of Feimhin:
   • As we move from Montagu's own theorization of translation to her complex recusative acts of allusion and finally to her Virgilian allegories, we can track two coextensive performances . 2019, Daniel O'Quinn, Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815, page 166:
   • For many years, scholars have concentrated espcially on the "recusative” function of medieval marvels, especially of gargoyles and other grotesques—that is, their signification as demonic or morally reprehensible—which, as Williams notes, may be the easiest signification of the monstrous to comprehend or to describe:. 2004, Erika E. Hess, Literary Hybrids:
   • it is acquisitive and effective , or recusative and destructive , otherwise than it is in any other faculties 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
2. Including the word 'not' (or its equivalent).
   • In recusative negation the negative element is separable from the rest of the utterance which can act as an autonomous non-negative utterance. 2008, Matti Miestamo, Standard Negation:
   • Exceptions are found in some Central/North Dravidian languages which developed a recusative type of negation under the influence of Indo-Aryan/Iranian languages. 2010, Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw, Rara & Rarissima, page 301:
   • A sentence which is negative (in meaning) is not always recusative (containing the word 'not'), and vice versa: a propositive syntagm need not always be positive. 1972, Niels Danielsen, Die Frage: Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung:

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