Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, forming, or formed by a termination; specifically, forming the concluding syllable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
termination - adjective That
terminates
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Examples
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Many adjectives do not admit terminational comparison, but form the
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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The scientists divide all the languages of the earth into three great groups: first, the monosyllabic, {96} isolating, radical, or asynthetic languages; second, the agglutinant, terminational, or polysynthetic languages; third, the inflectional languages.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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A bit of an architect, and foiled, he summoned at last what Italian he could, supplemented it with Latin and a terminational _o_ or _a_ tacked to any French or English word that offered help, and succeeded, as he believed, in gathering from a by-stander, that the arches were there because of the earthquakes.
A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864
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The prepositive and terminational particles are critically explained and illustrated.
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All classification has been carefully avoided, so that the initial letter, the terminational syllable, or the silent letters shall not be indicated by the preceding word.
A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes Oliver Optic 1859
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It mattered little that the reader with the idea or the suspicion of a structural centre is the rarest of friends and of critics -- a bird, it would seem, as merely fabled as the phoenix: the terminational terror was none the less certain to break in and my work threaten to masquerade for me as an active figure condemned to the disgrace of legs too short, ever so much too short, for its body.
The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879
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