Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to definition; used in defining.
- Abounding in definitions.
Wiktionary
- adj. of or relating to a definition
- adj. used to define something
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
Examples
“A Federal Judge told the city that they cannot have a "definitional" ban.”
“Doesn't it sometimes seem as if there's only one kind of definitional argument, and we keep having it again and again?”
“Nerd trolls. what Zizek said (youtube) about that kind of definitional debate:”
“The contrast subtly destabilises the notion that the "definitional" claims put forward in either of the opening chapters of”
“Opponents of marriage equality have recently been shifting somewhat away from the "bad for children" argument in favor of what we might call the "definitional" argument: same-sex”
“The problem was "definitional," he continued, and honed on the meaning of the word”
“Gotta go with NYU Law Libertarian, for the kind of definitional, letter-of-the-law, manipulative hair-splitting (and circular reasoning) I've come to expect - nay, demand - nay! dread!”
“The kind of definitional jerrymandering you’re attempting doesn’t, to my mind, amount to a useful distinction. raven”
Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb
“Again, think about the definitional issues of “all-star game” … too many steves Says:”
“On the merits of Mo Williams as a player, totally aside from all-star definitional issues:”
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
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