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adessive

[ad-es-iv]Grammar
adjective
  1. locative.
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noun
  1. the locative case.
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Origin of adessive

1855–60; < Latin adess(e) to be present (ad- ad- + esse to be) + -ive
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  • The extent to which they are also Caritive, Adessive and the like has yet to be investigated.

    Opuscula

    Robert Gordon Latham