advanciveadj.

1660 T. White Chrysaspis to Querela sig. B2 Why may not Cavalerius as well take up a supposition so advancive of Mathematicks, and so approv'd by Mathematicians, as Guldinus demand the allowance of One neither beneficial nor admitted?

1680 J. Davies tr. G. B. Stoppa Relig. Dutch v. 50 All the external Services of the Christian Religion, are not at all contributory to, or advancive of satisfaction.

a1716 J. Edwards Theologia Reformata (1726) 178 None have Principles that are so consistent with and advancive of Amity and Peace.

1757 W. Smith Rev. Mil. Operations N.-Amer. 118 A change of the general..facilitated the execution of an affair earnestly solicited, and greatly advancive of their interest.

1819 Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 12 Nov. State banking had destroyed confidence, embarrassed communication, locked up nearly all the small remains of the precious metals, and unlocked, when convenient and advancive of their own views.

1853 Wesleyan Methodist Assoc. Mag. Jan. 42 Look also, where you will at man, thoughtful, enterprising, inventive, and you have in him a spectacle of emulative advancive power.

1921 Minnesota Med. 4 39/2 It would seem advancive both for study and treatment, to consider all these cases either as incipient or advanced, true or false glycosurias.