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Webster 1913 Edition


Ampliative

Am′pli-a-tive

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Adj.
(Logic)
Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already known or received.
“All bodies possess power of attraction” is an
ampliative
judgment; because we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attributes.
Abp. W. Thomson.