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federative, a.|ˈfɛdərətɪv|
[f. L. fœderāt- (see federate v.) + -ive. Cf. F. fédératif, -ive.]
†1. Of or pertaining to the formation of a covenant, league, or alliance. Obs. exc. Hist.
1690Locke Govt. ii. §146 This [power] contains the Power of..Leagues and Alliances..and may be called Federative. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 227 The power to which our constitution has exclusively delegated the federative capacity of this kingdom. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §9 (1876) 697 The Scotch proposals of a federative rather than a legislative union were set aside.
2. Of or pertaining to a federation; forming part of a federation; of the nature of a federation.
1781Gibbon Decl. & F. lxx. (1828) VIII. 395 A vast..idea of uniting Italy in a great fœderative republic. 1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 78 Our first essay, in America, to establish a federative government had fallen..very short of its object. 1846Grote Greece ii. iv. II. 430 Argos, with the federative cities attached to her. 1851Gallenga Italy 39 This federative work developes..difficulties.
3. Inclined to form federations.
1885E. C. Stedman in Century Mag. XXIX. 506 The numberless corporations of the federative Saxon race. 1886Blackw. Mag. CXXXIX. 582 They acquire..a sort of clannish and federative spirit.
Hence ˈfederatively adv.
1823Southey Hist. Penins. War I. 51 All the inferior powers..had contracted..federatively and individually, an alliance with the Emperor Napoleon. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 89 The authorities and tribunals federatively combined in our political constitution. 1854St. André Land of Refuge 55 Any established body not federatively constituted. |