Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Grammar Serving to connect coordinate words or clauses: a copulative conjunction.
- adj. Grammar Serving as a copula: a copulative verb.
- adj. Of or relating to copulation.
- n. Grammar A copulative word or group of words.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Uniting or coupling; serving to unite or couple.
- Relating or pertaining to copulation.
- n. A copulative conjunction. Connection.
- n. One who copulates.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to copulation
- adj. grammar that acts as a copula
- adj. grammar that connects the subject of a clause with its complement
- n. obsolete connection
- n. grammar A copulative conjunction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving to couple, unite, or connect.
- n. obsolete Connection.
- n. (Gram.) A copulative conjunction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence
- adj. syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence
Examples
“Some suggestive verbs became known as copulative; nouns and pronouns might be epicene; constructions might be pregnant.”
“Trachimday is the only time all year when the tiny village of Trachimbrod can be seen from space, when enough copulative voltage is generated to sex the”
A Conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer about Everything Is Illuminated
“He has the hook-singing prowess of Nate Dogg, a Southern drawl perfect for slowly cruising the strip with the top down and a talent for drawing humor from pharmacological, scatological and copulative raps.”
The Washington Post: Nightlife Agenda: Paul Oakenfold, Michael Mayer and outdoor parties
“As for your 6 propositions, no real argument here except to note that prop.5 is still of the form 'God is x', only using the copulative grammatically as a descriptor.”
“How many of you youngsters ever heard of copulative verbs?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake]
“It is a puerile illusion, hardly worthy of a fourteen-year-old mind, yet it persists among grown men even as they meet women more avidly copulative than they.”
“I've been reading Elizabeth Grosz on sensation and futurity: "There is an involuted and oblique relation between the energies of sexual selection...the attraction to and possible attainment of sexual (though not necessarily copulative) partners—human and otherwise—and the forces and energies of artistic production and consumption" (from *Chaos, Territory, Art*).”
“In contrast, C4M advocates tend to think that the +C4W-C4M movement is motivated by a desire - perhaps a subconscious desire - to deny men any post-copulative reproductive choice - essentially to punish them for getting women pregnant.”
“By figuring her visual perception of beauty in terms of copulative touch, Oothoon articulates an imaginative alternative to the oppositional subject/object dynamic so often associated with the economy of the gaze.”
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
“Rather, what they might do is awaken in the other her or his predisposition for copulative excellence.”
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