commissive
1Commissive — Com*mis sive, a. Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission. [R.] [1913 Webster] …
2commissive — 1. adjective a) By commission; resulting from a positive act. This error was commissive rather than omissive. b) Making a commitment, such as a promise or threat, by illocutionary means. I will kill you if you do that is a commissive statement …
3commissive — adj. giving authorization …
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5commissive mood — noun A grammatical mood that indicates promises or threats …
6commissive waste — Voluntary waste, often called actual waste, consisting in such acts as destroying, altering, or removing buildings, or cutting trees. 56 Am J1st Waste § 4. The term contemplates participation, at least to some extent, by the tenant or occupant of …
7actual waste — Commissive waste; acts injurious to the substance of an estate in land, such as cutting down trees valuable as timber and destroying, altering, or removing buildings. 56 Am J1st Waste § 4 …
8Moore's paradox — concerns the putative absurdity involved in asserting a first person present tense sentence such as It s raining but I don t believe that it is raining or It s raining but I believe that it is not raining . The first author to note this apparent… …
9Nicholas Onuf — is one of the primary figures among Constructivists in international relations.[1] His best known contribution to Constructivism is set out in World of Our Making (University of South Carolina Press, 1989). His approach is based on a continuum of …
10Deontic modality — (abbreviated deo) is a linguistic modality that indicates how the world ought to be,[1] according to certain norms, expectations, speaker desire, etc. In other words, a deontic expression indicates that the state of the world (where world is… …
