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
"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 James Buchanan
A teacher teaches at all, only so far as he causes this coactive energy of the pupil's mind.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
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