a. and sb. rare. [f. compellāt- (see COMPELLATE) + -IVE.]

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  A.  adj. Denoting address.

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In mod. Dicts.

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  B.  sb. A word used as a name, title, or appellation; = COMPELLATION 2 b, c.

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1656.  Stanley, Hist. Philos., I. VIII. 41. Compellative is a thing in speaking which we call another, as: Atrides, Agamemnon, King of men.

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1830.  Fraser’s Mag., I. 209. Many a gentleman … fully entitled to such a compellative.

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  † b.  = Vocative (case). Obs.

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1849.  J. W. Gibbs, Philol. Stud. (1857), 47. We have, in continuous discourse, the compellative or vocative.

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