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compositive, a.|kəmˈpɒzɪtɪv|
[ad. L. compositīv-us, f. composit-: see composite and -ive.]
†1. Of composite nature or character; in Archit. = composite a. 2. Obs.
1601W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 102 Either a theefe simply, or a theefe compositiue, as a robber by the high way, or a burglarer. 1687M. Taubman London's Tri. 9 The Temple of Janus of the Compositive Order..being a composition of all the five Orders.
2. Involving or using composition or combination; synthetic.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 291 By a compositive method theorematically to infer consequences. 1857T. E. Webb Intellect. Locke v. 88 Those Ideas..are..[not] products of the mere compositive Energy of Thought. 1860Abp. Thomson Laws Th. 28 A picture or statue would be called by some a synthetic, or compositive, sign.
Hence comˈpositively adv., synthetically.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 18 Compositively, as it respects all times and all occasions. |