reservative adjective 4noun 1forms 1 adjective4 •Tending to reserve or keep; Involving the holding of something in reserve.The more enjoyment here we have A reservative store, Augmenting thus, our path to pave, 'Twill shine for ever more. — 1849 •Expressing reservation; indicating a qualification or doubt.With this enumeration of the advantages of a refined taste, we would make one reservative remark. — 1855 •Denoting an action that puts the object of the sentence into a state in which it remains.The reservative form, which is conjugated throughout, has also separate causative and reciprocal bases. — 1906 •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.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 . — 1899 noun1 •An exception to a rule or decree; a proviso.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. — 2013 formsreservatives
