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contributive, a.|kənˈtrɪbjuːtɪv|
[f. contribute + -ive (L. type *contribūtīv-us): cf. F. contributif, -ive (15th c.).]
That has the quality or power of contributing; fitted to contribute to.
1583in Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 301 Your Majesty's Favour and Assistance will be more contributive for his Advantage. 1659Hammond On Ps. xxxvi. 4 If it seem contributive to their interests. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 78 Those which are essential and those which are contributive. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 47 Exercise taken in open air, is much more contributive to health.
Hence conˈtributively adv.; conˈtributiveness.
a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. iv. (1870) 67 Its contributiveness to the great purpose of universal good. |