a. (sb.) [f. L. juss-, ppl. stem of jubēre to command: see -IVE.] Expressing a command or order: esp. in Grammar, applied to forms of the verb.
1846. T. H. Key, Lat. Gram., 58. The imperative mood commands.… The jussive mood directs.
1850. B. Davies, trans. Gesenius’ Heb. Gram., xlviii. We must distinguish … between the common form of the Future and … a shortened form (with a Jussive force).
1870. trans. Lange’s Comm., Song Sol., vii. 166. The following voluntative or jussive future.
1881. Athenæum, 27 Aug., 274/2. We do not believe in the jussive pluperfect subjunctive.
1899. A. N. Jannaris, in Expositor, April, 299. The above jussive, or hortative and desiderative function of this infinitive.
B. sb. A verbal form expressing command.
1900. R. C. Thompson, Rep. Magic. Nineveh, II. p. xxxv. Lillik-limur are the equivalents of the Hebrew jussive.
