observatives

Noun

observative (plural observatives)

1. An observation.
   • Taking these observations as a basis for his experiments, Westphalen tried placing patients with habitual constipation on the regular peasant diet, with marked substantiation of the original hypothesis deduced from his general observatives, that the vegetable diet serves as a marked stimulus to...1904, Massachusetts Medical Society, Medical Communications - Volume 19, page 536
2. An utterance that describes or calls attention to something that the speaker observes.
   • Now consider an observative that does not immediately raise the problem of ellipsis: "Willard is on the mat!" Unlike "Lo, a rabbit!," or even just "A rabbit!," this observative utterance takes the form of a proposition that can function as a purely declaratival expression.2009, Rebecca Kukla, Mark Lance, Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’

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