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counteractive, a. and n.|kaʊntərˈæktɪv|
[f. as prec. + -ive.]
A. adj. Tending to counteract.
1805Foster Ess. i. iii. 45 Circumstances..of an entirely counteractive order. 1880M. Collins Th. in Garden I. 89 The innumerable counteractive and constructive agencies.
b. analytically. Active in opposition. nonce-use.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women & B. I. iii. 40 It only made him..look extremely counter-active and frowning.
B. n. A counteracting agent or force.
1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xxiv. §5 It must..meet all drains by counteractives more or less strong. 1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 54 Benthamism in Britain would have had no adequate counteractive.
Hence counterˈactively adv.
1864in Webster. |