institutive

English

Etymology

institute +‎ -ive

Adjective

institutive (not comparable)

1. Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish.

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2. Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order.
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     institutive decency

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “institutive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Adjective

institutive

1. feminine of institutif