recusative

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English

Etymology

From the Late Latin recūsātīvus (“prohibitory”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkjuːzətɪv/

Adjective

recusative (comparative more recusative, superlative most recusative)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Refusing; denying; rejecting of the norm.
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: James Flesher, for Richard Royston , →OCLC:
      it is acquisitive and effective , or recusative and destructive , otherwise than it is in any other faculties
    • 2004, Erika E. Hess, Literary Hybrids:
      For many years, scholars have concentrated espcially on the "recusative” function of medieval marvels, especially of gargoyles and other grotesques—that is, their signification as demonic or morally reprehensible—which, as Williams notes, may be the easiest signification of the monstrous to comprehend or to describe:.
    • 2014, Frank P. Ryan, The Sword of Feimhin:
      On Tír, it was only the recusative priests who painted their faces —they painted them black, along with the palms of their hands
    • 2019, Daniel O'Quinn, Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815, page 166:
      As we move from Montagu's own theorization of translation to her complex recusative acts of allusion and finally to her Virgilian allegories, we can track two coextensive performances .
  2. (linguistics) Including the word 'not' (or its equivalent).
    • 1972, Niels Danielsen, Die Frage: Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung:
      A sentence which is negative (in meaning) is not always recusative (containing the word 'not'), and vice versa: a propositive syntagm need not always be positive.
    • 2008, Matti Miestamo, Standard Negation:
      In recusative negation the negative element is separable from the rest of the utterance which can act as an autonomous non-negative utterance.
    • 2010, Jan Wohlgemuth, ‎Michael Cysouw, Rara & Rarissima, page 301:
      Exceptions are found in some Central/North Dravidian languages which developed a recusative type of negation under the influence of Indo-Aryan/Iranian languages.
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