copulative
Americanadjective
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serving to unite or couple.
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Grammar.
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involving or consisting of connected words or clauses.
a copulative sentence.
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pertaining to or serving as a copula; serving to connect subject and complement.
a copulative verb.
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serving to connect nouns, noun phrases, verbs, clauses, etc..
a copulative conjunction.
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of the dvandva type.
Bittersweet is a copulative compound.
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of or relating to sexual intercourse.
noun
adjective
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serving to join or unite
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of or characteristic of copulation
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grammar (of a verb) having the nature of a copula
Other Word Forms
- copulatively adverb
Etymology
Origin of copulative
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English copulatif, from Middle French copulatif, copulative, from Late Latin cōpulātīvus; see copulate, -ive
Example Sentences
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Conjunctions copulative and disjunctive, couple like cases, moods, and tenses, as Socrates docuit Xenophontem et Platonem geographiam, astronomiam, et rationem globorum: Socrates taught Xenophon and Plato geography, astronomy, and the use of the globes.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John
Other conjunctions having a copulative use are also, besides, likewise, moreover, and too; and the correlative conjunctions, both … and, not only … but also, etc.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
Every articulate language is composed of substantive, adjective and copulative ideas.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
In the English Bible this particle is usually rendered by the copulative conjunction and; in the Septuagint, and in Josephus, however, it sometimes has the sense of but.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
Murray admits of only the dis-junctive and copulative, and reduces the whole list of words to twenty-four.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens
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