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

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 will thus be seen that respiration is a sort of self-regulative process, the movements being in proportion to the needs of the body.

From Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Mills, Wesley

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

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

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

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

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