The names of the demons are preceded by the same determinative that is used for the gods.
The difference between the god and the city would be indicated by the determinativefor deity, which was only attached to the former, while the latter was written with the determinative attached to towns.
In giving to these personified powers the determinative indicative of deity, the Babylonian schoolmen were not conscious of expressing anything more than their belief in the divine origin of the power and skill exercised by man.
So the names of Dungi and Gudea[1134] are written on tablets that belong to the centuries immediately following their reign, with the determinative that is placed before the names of gods.
The fact that the name is written with the determinative for deity must not lead us to a purely mythical interpretation of the epic.
His name is never written with thedeterminative for deity.
Mar, with thedeterminative for country, Ki, appears to have been the name of a district extending to the Persian Gulf.
The ideographic form of the name is preceded invariably by the determinative for deity, but the three elements composing the name, iz, du, and bar, are exceedingly obscure.
For as in the philosophy of Hegel, so in the religion of Christ, the negative principle is the creative or the determinative principle.
But when intelligence is aware that it is determinative of the content, which is its mode no less than it is a mode of being, it is Will.
The most that he could do was to state the principles upon which opposing parties had been founded, and the determinative conflicts that had marked the evolution of them and the development of the American Nation.
A crisis was reached in his career and a determinative phase of American history entered upon.
In many instances the tests we have termed indicative become determinative in their character.
Particular attention should be given to the search for soda, potassa, lime, baryta and strontia, and the determinative tests subsequently applied according to the indications obtained.
In Egyptian hieroglyphics the symbol for stone is used as the determinative for Set.
The ankh (life-sign) below the sun is the determinative of the act of giving birth or life.
Budge[213] the Egyptian hieroglyph used as the determinativeof the word neter, meaning god or spirit, is the axe with a handle.
Above these groups was a short epigraph, commencing by two determinative signs of proper names, each followed by a blank space, which the sculptor probably left to be filled up with the names of the principal victims.
These names are preceded by a determinative monogram assumed to signify a city, but which undoubtedly also applies to a fort or fortified palace.
One of our historians thinks this check of France by black soldiers to have been a determinative factor in American history, for thereafter there could be no question of a Gulf and Caribbean empire for France.
In the first of these inseparable aspects valuation is determinative of Rightness and Wrongness; in the second it presents the object as Good or Bad.
This method is one of valuation since, like the ethical method, it is determinative of a purpose, but it accomplishes this result in its own distinctive way.
In this case the prefix must be understood as a determinative indicating piling or heaping up, putting together or in a heap, or storing away.
The face character, which forms part of the glyph, may be only a determinative; at least I am unable to assign it any other value in this connection, and the necessity for such determinative is apparent.
The main sentence often has thedeterminative or demonstrative, or the substantive, or both omitted: as, (a.
Sentences are said to be correlative, when a relative pronoun or adverb has a corresponding determinative or demonstrative pronoun or adverb in the main sentence.
The meaning of a determinative may often be best expressed by two words.
The first part of a determinative may represent the oblique case of a noun, generally a substantive; the second part is a noun or verb stem.
Cleavage is therefore a character of considerable determinative value, especially for the purpose of distinguishing different minerals.
As indicated above, the location of the United States Fort Walla Walla was largely determinative of the location of the city.
He inferred that a certain sign was the determinative for city, and that the names preceding this sign were names of places.
This characteristic is observable in the neighbourhood of Glencoe, Dundee, and Ladysmith, and, as will be seen, exercised a determinative influence upon the fighting.
Probably no single incident of the war has been more determinative of final issues than the tenure of Ladysmith.
That he was acquainted, however, with the meaning of the Canaanitish word Sopher (in Egyptian Thupar) is shown by his adding to it the determinative of "writing.
As the name of Sutakh is preceded by the determinative of divinity, it is clear that we have in it the name of the Hyksos deity Sutekh.
A Glossary of hieroglyphs occurring in this book, together with their pronunciation and determinative value.
It is particularly striking to find in Brugsch's work, that the determinative for time is actually represented, in numerous cases, as close to the single hanging star (fig.
It is a familiar fact that the Egyptian hieroglyph and determinative sign for town, city or village consisted of a circle with four divisions.
By a dot in the centre of a circle, the determinative of "time.
There exists a remarkable variant of the determinative of time, which I shall discuss more fully further on.
In nearly every text of Narâm-Sin the determinative for deity precedes his name, and in some of the contemporary seal-inscriptions he is even termed "the god of Akkad.
This is proved by the fact that in their own inscriptions that have been recovered the determinative for divinity precedes their names.
Of the kings of Kish we have evidence that some were deified, and the divine determinative is set before the name of Shar-Gani-sharri in two inscriptions that have come down to us.
The name is written in Sumerian as Shirpurla, with the addition of the determinative for place, and it was formerly assumed that the name was pronounced as Shirpurla by the Sumerians.
Seh is here used as a determinative to the preceding hieroglyph.
The three vases in this place are used as a determinative to men, monument; and being three in number, indicate plurality, making MEN into MENU, monuments.
This hieroglyph represents the top or cap of the obelisk, and is a determinative to capped.
Over the mind the determinative faculty exercises power; this determinative faculty is governed by the individual Self; beyond this Self is the undifferentiated creative energy known as Avyaktam; and above this is the Purusha or Supreme Self.
The name Gishbilgames is written in the list with the determinativefor "god".
In our text the determinative is absent, and it is possible that the word is used in another sense.
As in later periods, their names are there preceded by the determinative for divinity.
Except in those cases referred to in the foot-notes, all the names are written in the Sumerian lists without the determinative for "god".
The name Etana is written in the lists with and without the determinative for "god".
The name Lugalbanda is written in the lists with and without the determinative for "god".
The name Dumuzi is written in the list with the determinativefor "god".
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "determinative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
