coactive
Adjective
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Adjective
coactive
- (obsolete) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
- any coactive power or the civil kind
- Italian: coattivo
coactive
- 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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