coactiveadj.
/kəʊˈaktɪv/, U.S. /koʊˈæktɪv/ 1. † b. In passive sense: Of an enforced kind, compulsory. Obsolete.
a. Of the nature of force or compulsion; coercive, compulsory. (Qualifying power or the like; never persons. Frequent in 17th cent.; now rare.)
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective]
strainable1483
compellatory?a1562
coactive1593
inforcive1596
enforcive1598
coercivea1600
constraining1602
constraintive1602
pulsive1602
compulsive1604
compulsatory1610
compellinga1616
compulsativea1616
compulsory1631
coercitive1632
coactinga1641
enforcinga1657
coercent1660
imposing1665
cogent1672
compellent1847
high-pressured1868
coercionary1884
steamroller1896
1593 T. Bell Motives Romish Faith i. 2 The Pope hath no power coactive over anie king.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 91 A coactive, or coercitive jurisdiction.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 57. ⁋7 I do not see any coactive necessity that many should be without the conveniences of life.
1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 78 The coactive and usurped power of the Pope.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective] > done, produced, or obtained by compulsion
threata1400
constraintc1430
compelled1541
compulsed1541
violent?1550
extorted1552
wrested1565
coacted1570
enforced1576
forced1576
compulsory1581
commandeda1586
coactive1596
infortiate1601
extortious1602
coact1610
compulsive1611
exacted1618
necessitous1632
violented1641
necessary1655
on-forced1656
commandatorya1659
extorsive1669
compellable1677
compulsatory1748
obbligato1780
coerced1877
mandatory1891
shotgun1937
1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery i. i. xvi. 62 Coactiue fasting is..by reason of famine [etc.].
1636 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus 69 His residence there was..at his owne pleasure, not coactive.
1661 J. Ussher Power of Princes (1683) i. 68 They are free from all coactive obedience to them.
2. [ < co- prefix + active adj.] Acting in concert; acting or taking place together. rare.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective]
altogether?c1400
concurrent1495
contemporana1500
unison1582
coincident1598
coetaneal1614
coactivea1616
contemporal1621
synchronisticalc1624
coetanean1625
coetaneous1649
coinstantanean1652
synchronical1652
simultal1654
contemporary1656
contemporaneous1659
simultaneousa1660
coevous1660
synchronal1660
coexistent1662
implicit1662
synchronous1669
coexistinga1676
synchronistic1685
coeval1714
contemporany1721
synchronizinga1727
joint1765
coinstantaneous1768
consentaneous1775
coinciding1786
conterminating1805
synchronic1833
coincidental1845
parallel1859
homochronous1876
monochronic1905
co-occurring1951
co-occurrent1954
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 143 With what's vnreall: thou coactiue art, And fellow'st nothing. View more context for this quotation
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1878) 2nd Ser. ii. 62 The evolution was not from one central point, but coactive from three or more points.
Derivatives
coactively adv. by way of compulsion.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adverb]
constrainingly1382
compulsively1605
compulsorily1633
coactivelya1641
compellingly1654
necessitatingly1654
coercively1661
compulsatorily1748
compellably1818
compulsatively1844
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) vii. 410 Inforcing coactively, impelling violently all men.
1658 J. Bramhall Schisme Garded i. x. 177 All Legislative Judiciary and dispensative power, Coactively in the exteriour Court of the Church, over English Subjects.
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