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; copulate, -ive
Example Sentences
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Among the incomplete intransitive verbs the most conspicuous are the copula and the copulative verbs.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
And is said to be copulative because it merely adds something to what has just been said.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
Also a relative, which, may be resolved into his antecedent with a conjunction copulative, as thus, which runneth, and he runneth.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
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
It is a copulative conjunction, connecting the two members of the sentence—he will adopt if he can procure: Rule, as above.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens
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