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configurative, a.|kənˈfɪgjʊərətɪv| [f. ppl. stem of L. configūrāre + -ive.] Of or pertaining to configuration. In first quot. perh. f. con- + figurative.
1787Gent. Mag. Supp. 1164/1 Substitute for taste the configurative words approbation or pleasure (which change every metaphorical question ought to bear). 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1882) 52 The ideas are themselves..nothing more than their appropriate configurative vibrations. Ibid. 57 Those diminished copies of configurative motion. |