Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cutting off; amputative; eradicative.
- Pertaining to or resulting from the mental precision of one object from another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose
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- adjective Cutting off.
- adjective logic Exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose.
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People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896
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