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Webster 1913 Edition
Conative
Co′na-tive
(? or ?)
, Adj.
[See
Conatus
.] Of or pertaining to conation.
This division of mind into the three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or
conative
powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.