ejective
Americanadjective
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serving to eject.
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Phonetics. (of a voiceless stop, affricate, or fricative) produced with air compressed above the closed glottis.
noun
adjective
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relating to or causing ejection
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phonetics (of a plosive or fricative consonant, as in some African languages) pronounced with a glottal stop
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Yet, that the world, under the theory of Monism, is at least as susceptible of an ejective as it is of an objective interpretation, I trust that I have now been able to show.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
Thus, in the following discussion, x = the objective world, y = the ejective world, and z = subjective world.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
On the objective aspect, the explanations furnished by reason are of necessity physical, while, on the ejective aspect, such explanations are of necessity metaphysical—or rather, let us say, hyper-physical.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
It applies with equal felicity to things and persons, to the objective and to the ejective realm.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
For, if physical and mental processes are everywhere consubstantial, or identical in kind, it can make no difference whether we regard their sequences as objective or ejective, physical or spiritual.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
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