coactive
Adjective

coactive

  1. (obsolete) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
    • any coactive power or the civil kind
Translations Adjective

coactive

  1. Acting in concurrence; united in action.
    • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
      With what's unreal thou coactive art.



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