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institutive, a. (n.)|ˈɪnstɪtjuːtɪv|
[f. as institute v. + -ive.]
1. Having the character or quality of instituting; pertaining to the institution of something.
1627Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xcviii. (1628) 286 It [the air] does..thrust it still forward, till it passes against institutiue Nature, who made it to incline to the Center. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1851) 164 They..must be led back to receive their meaning from those institutive words of God. 1869J. Martineau Let. in Edin. Rev. (1893) Oct. 342 The invitations to the institutive dinner were..addressed impartially to some best representatives of the several schools, positive or negative, of philosophical or religious opinion.
†2. Characterized by being instituted. Obs.
1643Milton Divorce ii. v, It was a penall statute rather then a dispense; and..prefers a speciall reason of charitie, before an institutive decencie. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. v. §12. 82 There are two kinds of Cities, the one naturall..the other institutive, which may be also called politicall.
†B. n. A person or thing that institutes; an institutive agent or cause. Obs.
1644Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings ii. 27 This per me, by me, Implyeth, Kings are Gods and Christs derivatives, and that God and Christ are their Institutives.
Hence ˈinstitutively adv., by institution.
1656Harrington Oceana (1700) 158 It is institutively in the Great Council..tho..it be sometimes exercis'd by the Senat. |