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Regulative   /rˈɛgjəlˌeɪtɪv/   Listen
Regulative

adjective
1.
Restricting according to rules or principles.  Synonym: regulatory.






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"Regulative" Quotes from Famous Books



... to account for the yielding to base desires. 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? There is another way of putting it in Memorabilia, Bk. I. c. ii., Sec.Sec. 19-28. Xenophon is not more a philosopher than a "philanthropist." He is full of compassion ...
— Cyropaedia - The Education Of Cyrus • Xenophon

... that intra-ocular pressure is kept down to the normal limit, by the prompt response of a regulative mechanism, which diminishes the flow of fluid into the eye, or permits its more rapid escape, whenever fluid tends to accumulate in the eye and ...
— Glaucoma - A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago - Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 • Various

... rule, then each town and city might be authorized to undertake the improvement of its own harbor, and to tax its own commerce for the prosecution of the work. Under such a system the dangers of misuse and improper diversion of funds would be reduced to a minimum. The system would be self-regulative. Negligence, or extravagance, with the necessary imposition of higher duties, would punish a ...
— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson



Words linked to "Regulative" :   restrictive, regulatory



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