self-regulative

American  

[self-reg-yuh-ley-tiv, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈrɛg yəˌleɪ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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