reservative

English

Etymology

From reserve +‎ -ative.

Adjective

reservative (not comparable)

Tending to reserve or keep; Involving the holding of something in reserve.
- 1703, Sir Philip Warwick, Memoires of the Reign of King Charles I., page 127:
  But, says Sir Walter Rawleigh in his story of it, Eumenes perceiving the meaning of Antigonus (for that the oath in a few words mentioned the King and Princes of the blood, rather to keep the decorum, than upon any loyall intent, the binding words and summe of all the rest being such, as tyed him fast only to Antigonus, omitting the reservative duty unto the King, or any other of Alexander's children ) rejected the same.
- 1849, John Wright, A Gem For Every-One, page 12:
  The more enjoyment here we have A reservative store, Augmenting thus, our path to pave, 'Twill shine for ever more.
- 1984, Joel Alper, ‎Joseph N. Pelton, The INTELSAT Global Satellite System, page 309:
  The ostensible political argument is, in addition to the concern with an exhaustion of access possibilities, the desire to do away with the increasingly cumbersome and discriminatory adversary process of coordination; and the economic argument is that, without reservative planning, in any case the cost of access would tend to increase with time, due to the required better technology which is perceived as a burden rather than as the key to the future orbit exploitation.
- 2001, Egbert P. Bos, ‎Stephen Read, Concepts: The Treatises of Thomas of Cleves and Paul of Gelria, page 35:
  One can simplify the traditional scheme, he says, to obtian only two inner senses, one cognoscitive (receiving different names, 'common sense', 'imagination', 'cogitation', from the different ways it obtains knowledge), the other reservative (called 'fantasy' when it reserves for less time, 'memory' when it reserves for longer).
Expressing reservation; indicating a qualification or doubt.
- 1855, Mary G. Clarke, Home Garner; Or, The Intellectual and Moral Store House, page 45:
  With this enumeration of the advantages of a refined taste, we would make one reservative remark.
- 1991, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: People's Republic of China - Issues 126-132, page 7:
  Prior to the closing of the meeting, Chinese delegation leader Liu Huaqiu, the deputy Chinese foreign minister, made a reservative speech , saying " we have reservations to some contents of the document."
- 2024, Hans-Georg Soeffner, The Designed Myth, page 29:
  One often sees the beginnings of this deeply conservative, if not reservative literature –probably wrongly – in the 'hostility to automata' Jean Paul's and E.T.A. Hoffmann's, whereby, as it seems to me, interpreters all too easily equate the literary symbol with real automata.
(law) Pertaining to a form of transfer of real estate, in Spanish and South American law, where full ownership is granted to another person but where the new owner must pay the original owner an annual fee for rights to the land.
- 1890, John Sayles, ‎Henry Sayles, A Treatise on the Laws of Texas Relating to Real Estate, page 65:
  That this is a reservative grant, viz., one converying full dominion, is manifest from the character of the annuity which by law is declared to attach to composition titles, viz., its redeemable quality.
- 1899, Translation of the Civil Code in Force in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, page 216:
  Reservative annuities can not be validly constituted unless preceded by an appraisement of the estate by an estimate agreed to by the parties or upon a just expert appraisal .
- 1901, Annual Reports of the War Department, page 5:
  Their administration is troublesome and their products do not compensate the sacrifices that the State would be compelled to make to attend to their preservation, for which reason it would be more judicious to alienate them through public sales or to cede them to the ayuntamientos for schools and hospitals when they can be utilized therefor, and likewise, the distribution of lots belonging to the State on reservative annuities for the increase of towns in the lands located in or on adjacent parts of them .
- 1918, ‎Frederick Charles Fisher, The Civil Code of Spain: With Philippine Notes and References, page 347:
  Reservative censos can not be validly constituted until the value of the estate has been determined by agreement between the parties or by expert appraisal.
(linguistics) Denoting an action that puts the object of the sentence into a state in which it remains.
- 1873, Lars O. Skrefsrud, A grammar of the Santhal language by the Rev. L. O. Skrefsrud, page 343:
  In the Reservative, Intensive, and Continuative Forms as well as in the Reflexive Voice and Dative Case, which have no General Incomplete Present, this Tense is used for both the Present Tenses, but can never be used as an Indefinite Present;
- 1906, Linguistic Survey of India - Volume 4, Part 1, page 40:
  The reservative form, which is conjugated throughout, has also separate causative and reciprocal bases.
- 1909, J. E. Friend Pereira, A Grammar of the Kūi Language, page 45:
  The Reservative form appears to have been borrowed from the Münda languages.

Noun

reservative (plural reservatives)

An exception to a rule or decree; a proviso.
- 1680, John Rushworth, The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Upon an Impeachment of High Treason, page 674:
  And, according to this Reservative, in the 8th year of King Richard the Second, one charged before the Kings Bench, was afterwards referred to the Parliament; and there, though the Fact was not contained in the Body of the Statute, yet because of the Proviso afore-mentioned, it was adjudged Treason.
- 1839, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe, page 116:
  In the dedication to Lord Hatton of the collective edition of his controversial writings after the Restoration, he declares that "when a persecution did arise against the church of England, he intended to make a reservative for his brethren and himself, by pleading for a liberty to our consciences to persevere in that profession, which was warranted by all the laws of God and our superiors.”
- 2013, N. I. Bukharin, ‎A. M. Deborin, ‎Y. M. Yuranovsky, Marxism and Modern Thought, page 208:
  It is impossible to pass over in silence the circumstance that when botanists talk of the struggle for existence among plants they are forced to make various reservatives in the conception.

Anagrams

reversative