categorial

comparative more categorial · superlative most categorial

1. categorical, absolute, without exception

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   1990 : The urgency of feminism to establish a universal status for patriarchy in order to strengthen the appearance of feminism's own claims to be representative has occasionally motivated the shortcut to a categorial or fictive universality of the structures of domination, held to produce women's common subjugated experience. - Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

2. categorical, pertaining to a category

   So, there is considerable evidence in favour of drawing a categorial distinction between the preposition for and the complementiser for: they are different lexical items (i.e. words) belonging to different categories.

   2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 55

3. pertaining to categorial grammar