a. rare. [f. SUBORDINATE v. + -IVE.] Tending to subordinate, involving subordination.
1642. Fuller, Answ. Ferne, 3. England is not a simply subordinative, and absolute, but a Coordinative, and mixt Monarchy.
b. Gram. Containing a subordinate clause or clauses.
1857. J. W. Gibbs, Philol. Studies, 116. The subordinative proposition is not to be regarded as a composition of already existing parts to a whole, but as a development from the simple proposition.
