Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar, belonging or peculiar to the imperative mode.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gram.) Of or pertaining to the imperative mood.
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- adjective grammar Of or pertaining to the
imperative mood
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Examples
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In addition to using an assertion sign, Reichenbach also uses indicators of interrogative and imperatival force.
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Understood in this weak way, it is unexceptionable to construe the interrogative mood as used for asking questions, the imperatival mood as used for issuing commands, and so on.
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Nevertheless he did include some extra rules, such as a rule forbidding imperatival conclusions based on premises that include no imperatives.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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This imperatival theory is positivist, for it identifies the existence of legal systems with patterns of command and obedience that can be ascertained without considering whether the sovereign has a moral right to rule or whether his commands are meritorious.
Legal Positivism Green, Leslie 2003
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The objections to imperatival monism apply also to this more sophisticated version: the reduction misses important facts, such as the point of having a prohibition on theft.
Legal Positivism Green, Leslie 2003
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Thus descriptive claims cannot entail the extra expressive or imperatival component that according to the non-cognitivist is part of the meaning of moral terms (Hare 1952, 32 “ 49).
Boys in White Suits 2009
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But these principles require us to think of the good as somehow imperatival (nowadays we would say
Harold Arthur Prichard Dancy, Jonathan 2009
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