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Meaning of 'regulative' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Regulative [ a.]
- Tending to regulate; regulating.
- Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.

Meaning of 'regulative' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . regulative [ s]
Meaning (1):
- restricting according to rules or principles
Example in sentence:
  • a regulatory gene

Nearby Words:

regain regal regale regaled regalement regaler regalia regalian regaling regalism

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