coactive

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15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8

Definition of coactive

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
    “any coactive power or the civil kind”
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
    “any coactive power or the civil kind”
  2. Acting in concurrence; united in action.
    “Affection? thy Intention ſtabs the Center. / Thou do'ſt make poſſible things not ſo held, / Communicat'ſt vvith Dreames (hovv can this be?) / VVith vvhat's vnreall: thou coactiue art, / And fellow'ſt nothing.”

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Etymology

See Latin coactum.

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