a. Obs. Also 6 finative, finityve. [ad. L. fīnītīv-us defining.]
1. a. Definitive, final. b. Defining.
1593. Rich, Greenes Newes, F b. Richard had no sooner thus added his finative concluison, but we might sodainly heare a loud and pitteous strike.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Finitive, which defines or determines.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Finitive, defining.
¶ 2. Erroneous uses: a. Put for L. finitimus: Of or belonging to the frontier. b. ? = FINICAL.
1549. Compl. Scot., xx. 166. The fyrst sort of battellis and veyris that broucht the romans to ruuyne, vas callit battellis finityuis, A finibus.
1640. R. Brathwait (‘Philogenes Panedonius’), Boulster Lect., 67. The Tale of that finitive Girle in excuse of her Lady. [app.= affecting fine language].
