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regulative, a.|ˈrɛgjʊleɪtɪv|
[f. regulate v. + -ive.]
1. Tending to regulate. Chiefly Philos.
1599Blundevil Arte of Logicke v. i. 116 The principles regulatiue of a Syllogisme be these two phrases of speech. a1834Coleridge Marginalia in Blackw. Mag. (1882) Jan. 122 Plato had meant something higher and other than regulative. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 467 These Ideas are simply regulative: they operate on concepts as the Understanding operates upon sensations. 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 9 Logic is not useless; it has a regulative, not a creative virtue.
2. Biol. Pertaining to or being regulation (sense 1 b); whose development is guided by regulation; opp. mosaic a.1 5.
1902Archiv für Entwicklungsmech. der Organismen XV. 229 Recognition of the fact that certain regulative processes are wholly or in part mechanical in nature is of importance for the future study of regulation. 1933[see mosaic a.1 5]. 1933J. H. Woodger tr. L. von Bertalanffy's Mod. Theories Devel. x. 143 In the regulative eggs cleavage occurs before segregation, so that every blastomere still contains the requisites for the formation of the whole organism. 1936Jrnl. Exper. Zool. LXXIV. 91 The ability of the separated one-half blastomeres following the first cleavage to produce a one-half of normal size—so-called mosaic eggs—or a whole of one-half size—so-called regulative eggs. 1947L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 5) ix. 161 All gradations exist between determinative, mosaic eggs and indeterminate, regulative eggs. Ibid., Even the mosaic egg of a tunicate is regulative before fertilization occurs. 1973R. Searls in S. J. Coward Developmental Regulation ix. 241 A number of experiments indicate that the limb mesenchyme is completely regulative.
Hence ˈregulatively adv.
1854H. L. Mansel Man's Concept. Eternity 10 A conception which is speculatively untrue may be regulatively true. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1973 It ought not to be hard to answer, whether a belief can be regulatively true, but really false. 1952Mind LXI. 554 Principles which function regulatively in ethical inquiry. |