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Webster 1913 Edition

Coactive

Co-ac′tive

,
Adj.
[In sense 1, fr. 1st
Coact
; in sense 2, fr. 2d
Coact
.]
1.
Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Any
coactive
power or the civil kind.
Bp. Warburton.
2.
Acting in concurrence; united in action.
With what’s unreal thou
coactive
art.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Coactive

COACTIVE

, a.
1.
Forcing; compulsory; having the power to impel or restrain.
2.
Acting in concurrence.

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