a. Obs. [f. SPECIFICATE v. + -IVE. Cf. F. spécificatif, -ive (14th c. in Godef.).] That serves to specify or distinguish; specific.
1641. Relat. Answ. Earl of Strafford (1647), 46. Treason was a thing of a simple and specificative nature.
1644. Hunton, Vindic. Treat. Monarchy, iii. 13. It’s specificative distinction must be from something which distinguisheth Powers.
1710. trans. Werenfels’s Disc. Logom., 25. Whether Body, as natural, be the Object of its Speculation? And if so, whether the word As be reduplicative or specificative.
