self-regulative

American  

[self-reg-yuh-ley-tiv, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈrɛg jəˌleɪ tɪv, ˈsɛlf- /

Also self-regulatory

adjective

1. used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself.

   a self-regulative device.

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Etymology

Origin of self-regulative

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

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self-regulative

For he aims at showing that the rational will inevitably creates as rational a law or universal; that the individual act becomes self-regulative, and takes its part in constituting a system or realm of duty.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Here is no mere blind, self-regulative, natural law.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

Only so will he become completely autonomous, self-regulative.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

Progress in personal development requires the individual to pass from objective heterocratic to subjective autocratic or self-regulative ethical life.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

It works, but is it not the theory of a man whose will is weak, as we say, or whose sympathetic nature has been developed at the expense of his self-regulative?

From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Dakyns, Henry Graham