a. rare. [ad. med. or mod.L. taxātīvus (Alciatus, c. 1530), f. ppl. stem of taxāre to TAX: see -ATIVE. (Cf. F. taxativement, Littré, Suppl.)]
† 1. Of limiting or defining nature. rare.
1676. Fountainhall, in M. P. Brown, Suppl. Decis. (1826), III. 67. Where it allows them to work in such and such work, which fell not naturally and properly under the subject-matter of their own occupation, the same is so far from being taxative, that it is demonstrative and in their favours.
1726. [implied in TAXATIVELY].
2. Having the function of taxing; of or pertaining to taxation.
1862. R. H. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 174. A taxative system which … had been in operation for two thousand years.
1870. Stubbs, Sel. Charters, Introd. 50. This completed the taxative powers of parliament.
1902. Cambr. Mod. Hist., I. 301. Upholding the representative legislative and taxative body by frequent sessions of Parliament.
Hence Taxatively adv., in a taxative manner.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 339. If these Ornaments or Furniture had been put Taxatively and by Way of Limitation, such a Thing bequeath’d as a Legacy shall not be paid, if it wants Ornaments or Furniture.
