Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ampliative \Am"pli*a*tive\, a. (Logic)
   Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already
   known or received.

         ``All bodies possess power of attraction'' is an
         ampliative judgment; because we can think of bodies
         without thinking of attraction as one of their
         immediate primary attributes.            --Abp. W.
                                                  Thomson.