aggregative
adjEtymology From aggregate + -ive.
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By, toward, or of aggregation (the act of collecting or gathering together).
- Aggregative Pills, or Pills that have many Virtues, in Latin, pillulae aggregativae sive polychrestae1694, John Pechey, The London Dispensatory, London: J. Lawrence, page 73:
- The reason why heat is necessary to the oxidation of most metals is, because by diminishing the aggregative force by which the integrant parts of those bodies adhere together, it increases in the same proportion their force of affinity or combination;1790, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, translated by William Nicholson, Elements of Natural History and Chemistry, London: C. Elliot and T. Kay, Volume 2, Chapter 4, § 5, p. 174:
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- […] the imitative power, voluntary and automatic; the imagination, or shaping and modifying power; the fancy, or the aggregative and associative power; […]1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Soul and its Organs of Sense”, in Omniana, volume 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, page 13:
- I never thought Yanks had any rudiments of decorum and laudability about them. I reckon I might have been too aggregative in my tabulation.1909, O. Henry, “Two Renegades”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, page 386:
- Utilitarianism is essentially an aggregative morality. It requires us to promote the general happiness, and that means doing as much good as possible, not just for particular others but for people in general […]2004, Richard Norman, chapter 4, in On Humanism, Abingdon: Routledge, published 2012, page 107: