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integrative, a.|ˈɪntɪgreɪtɪv| [f. L. integrāt-, ppl. stem (see integrate v.) + -ive.] Having the quality of integrating; tending to integrate.
1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xiii. §105 (1875) 304 This chapter opened by briefly specifying the conditions under which Evolution is integrative only. 1879W. E. Hearn Aryan Househ. 262 Public opinion, and afterwards positive law, forbad that any Hellên, or any Quirite, should be reduced to slavery. But the integrative tendency went no further. 1906C. S. Sherrington (title) The integrative action of the nervous system. 1937[see dominative a. 1 c]. 1937G. W. Allport Personality (1938) ii. v. 138 Whatever condition makes for mental health is called ‘integrative’, whatever condition makes for mental difficulty is called ‘disintegrative’. 1953J. S. Huxley Evolution in Action iv. 91 What we may call integrative emotions, like love. 1957M. Banton W. Afr. City ix. 179 Up to this point the integrative effects of the companies have been stressed. 1967Amer. Pol. Sci. Rev. LXI. 91 Far from finding a stagnation of integrative processes since 1958, I would argue that..European integration may have moved into full gear only since 1958. 1972World Archaeol. III. 231 He [sc. V. G. Childe] saw culture as an essentially integrative device. |