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Stative vs Sative - What's the difference?

stative | sative |

As adjectives the difference between stative and sative

is that stative is asserting that a subject has a particular property while sative is sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.

stative

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (grammar) asserting that a subject has a particular property
  • (military, obsolete, rare) Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

    • Synonyms

    * descriptive

    Antonyms

    * dynamic ----

    sative

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (both obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (label) Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.
  • * 1599 , Henry Buttes, Dyets Drie Dinner , P4b:
    • Tabacco… Translated out of India in the seed or roote; Natiue or satiue in our own fruitfullest soiles.
  • * 1664 , (John Evelyn), (third edition, 1679), page 2:
    • These [trees] we shall divide into the greater and more ceduous…and such as are sative and hortensial.
  • * 1725 , Bradley’s Family Dictionary , “Pine”:
    • The wild Pine differs no otherwise from the Sative .

    Related terms

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    References

    * '' VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed.), part ii (S–Sh; 1914), page 124/1, “ †Sa·tive, ''a. ” ----