modificatory

Sometimes mod·i·fi·ca·tive

[mod-uh-fi-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

adjective

1. modifying.

Other Word Forms

• nonmodificative adjective
• nonmodificatory adjective
• unmodificative adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of modificatory¹

1815–25; < Latin modificāt ( us ) ( modification ) + -ory ¹

Example Sentences

What distinguishes the Turanian languages is, that in them the conjugation and declension can still be taken to pieces; and although the terminations have by no means always retained their significative power as independent words, they are felt as modificatory syllables, and as distinct from the roots to which they are appended.

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Thou, in Turkish, is sen, and as all modificatory syllables are placed at the end of the root, we get sev-er-sen, thou lovest.

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In these roots either the first or the last consonant is modificatory.

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By the addition of these two modificatory syllables, the numbers of derivative roots is at once raised to thirty-six.

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