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gubernative, a. Now rare.|ˈgjuːbənətɪv| [ad. L. *gubernātīv-us, f. gubernāre, to govern. Cf. obs. F. gubernatif.] Of or pertaining to government; having the function of governing.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. vi. (Skeat) I. 120 Feoble witted people, that haue none insight of gubernatife prudence. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 268 The power of proving and ordeyning Presbyters,..of rebuking..excommunicating, silencing and restoring (all Acts gubernative). 1660R. Sheringham King's Suprem. Asserted viii. (1682) 94 Having the gubernative, and executive power in their hands. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 39 Real and gubernative wisdom. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 473 If it be so, that this gubernative dispositive Mind doth thus dispose althings. 1853G. S. Faber Revival Fr. Emperorship 11 The Territorial Roman Empire and the Gubernative Roman Emperorship were, each alike, a strict Unit. 1897Columbus Disp. (Ohio) 12 Oct. 1/8 The action of the Spanish authorities in Cuba was a gubernative measure. Hence ˈgubernatively adv.
1853G. S. Faber Revival Fr. Emperorship 22 The Imperial Head..is the Head, either gubernatively, or feudally, or reputedly, of the legally one empire. |