a. and sb. Obs. [f. L. quōdam modō in a certain way + -(T)ATIVE.] a. adj. Existing in a certain manner. b. sb. A thing that exists in a certain way.
1656. Stanley, Hist. Philos., VIII. I. xiii. (1687), 437/1. Things are subdivided into foure Genus’s, Subjects, and Qualitatives and Quodammodotatives in themselves, and Quodammodotatives as to others. Ibid., xvii. 438/2. Aristo … defined Quodammodotative-Relatives to be those, whose being is … their Quodammodotative being to one another.
