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形容詞

affinitive (comparative more affinitive, superlative most affinitive)

1. Closely connected, as by affinity.
   • 2005, Eric Grillo, Power Without Domination, page 181:

     Subjects were selected on the basis of 'affinitive' relationships, a notion which is defeined by Maisonneuve (1966; Maisonneuve & Lamy, 1993) as reciprocal choices associated with shared emotional satisfaction.

   • 2011, Jack Churchward ·, Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu:

     They also speak of the sun's forces roking on the earth's affinitive forces.

2. (chemistry) Tending to bond with.
   • 1907, James Burke, “Strophanthin”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 98, page 604:

     The presence in the blood and fluids of the body of the dominant toxin, for which strophanthin is chemically affinitive, debilitiates the contractile force of muscle, and more especially unstriped muscle fibre.

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関連する語

• affinitative

参照

• “affinitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.