Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Discretive \Dis*cre"tive\, a. [L. discretivus. See {Discrete}.]
   Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.

   {Discretive proposition} (Logic & Gram.), one that expresses
      distinction, opposition, or variety, by means of
      discretive particles, as but, though, yet, etc.; as,
      travelers change their climate, but not their temper.