violativeadj.

1716 J. Reynolds Zeal a Virtue 91 It [sc. Christianity] subjects Reason and the violative Powers, to the Empire of Divine Law and Grace.

1834 Affectionate Addr. to Private Members Methodist Societies (Wesleyan Methodist Assoc.) 14 Did you not fearfully anticipate the present crisis of affairs, as the violative measures of Conference severally came before you?

1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 26 Those Who have dared in violative wise To assault with strong and impious blows, The awful, slumbering Pharaohs.

1936 Food & Drug Admin. U.S. Dept. Agric. (rev. ed.) 9 Each violative shipment appears in the pleadings as one or more counts against the defendant shipper.

1966 Kenyon Rev. Sept. 475 In subsequent art, violations like Pound's have ceased to appear violative.

2009 Time Out N.Y. 23 Apr. 90/3 The machine-like, violative horror of the waning moment.

1745 J. Grigg Young Chevalier 7 Such Expressions..are in every Sense vain, and consequently every way violative of a divine Command.

1774 Public Advertiser 28 Feb. 2/1 It [sc. refusing to incriminate oneself] is so far from being violative of the Principles, that it is the constant Practice of the Law.

1842 Southern Q. Rev. July 59 In cases where the offence was only politically violative of the peculiar ordinances of one nation..the offender would be entitled to the asylum sought.

1874 I. W. Andrews Man. Constit. iv. 211 Violative of a vested legal right.

1931 Harvard Law Rev. 44 655 The award to the patentee was violative of the statutory requirement of competitive bidding for public contracts.

1983 T. Regan Case for Animal Rights viii. 295 Animals can do nothing that merits treatment that is prima facie violative of their rights.

2008 Times of India (Nexis) 16 Mar. The plans aim to institute a ‘social audit’ which makes manufacturing processes in industries likely to be found violative of child labour laws subject to external scrutiny.