originative
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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Rome, while she lent her imperial quality of grandeur to the genius of her aliens, was in no sense originative.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
The will, therefore, as being more originative, has more to do with true or false judgments than the understanding.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Thales, the pioneer of this philosophy, maintained that Water was the originative principle of all things.
From A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall
Whereas motion is a property of matter, intelligence is an originative power working out purposes of its own choosing.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
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