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
In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was not from one central point, but coactive from three or more points.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ecclesiastical persons may convocate councils simply, and by a spiritual power and jurisdiction; but to convocate them by a temporal and coactive power, pertaineth to princes only.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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