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inhibitive, a. (n.)|ɪnˈhɪbɪtɪv|
[f. inhibit v. + -ive.]
That serves or tends to inhibit; inhibitory. Also as n., An inhibition.
1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall xvi, The Lords lawes are either imperatiues of good or inhibitiues of ill. 1830W. Phillips Mt. Sinai ii. 544 The will inhibitive so late promulged. 1899W. James Talks to Teachers xv. 181 A familiar example of the paralyzing power of scruples is the inhibitive effect of conscientiousness upon conversation. 1902Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XXIV. 299 An ‘inhibitive agent’ is then a substance producing an ‘inhibition’, or having an ‘inhibitive effect’. 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Pol. What's What? xxiii. 207 He [sc. Pavlov] thought he had discovered that reflexes have negative phases as well as positive ones, and can be classed as Excitatory or Inhibitive. 1952Kirk & Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. IX. 4 Colloids apparently owe their inhibitive action to their colloidal nature. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 10 The emphasis on morality has so often gone with a cold and inhibitive attitude. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard i. 22 Permission was given to live at home provided the distance wasn't inhibitive. 1971Mod. Law Rev. XXXIV. vi. 655 The principal purpose of the Act is inhibitive. |