coactive
1 Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of coactive1
First recorded in 1590–1600; coact(ion) 1 + -ive
Origin of coactive2
Example Sentences
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With what’s unreal: thou coactive art, And fellow’st nothing.
From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2016
And many creatures are coactive partners in their dance with destiny.
From Scientific American • May 22, 2013
Yossarian shook his head and explained that deja vu was just a momentary infinitesimal lag in the operation of two coactive sensory nerve centers that commonly functioned simultaneously.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
A compulsive, coactive, punitive, or corrective power, formally political, is also granted to the political magistrate in matters of religion, in reference to all sorts of persons and things under his jurisdiction.
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by
"Physical necessity," again, exists wherever there is either a causal connection between antecedents and consequents in the material world, or even a coactive and compulsory constraint in the moral world.
From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James
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