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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish.

Barrow.

Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order.

“Institutive decency.”

Milton.

Adj.

That establishes; having power to establish.

Established; depending on institution.

institutive ‎(not comparable)

Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Barrow to this entry?)
Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order.
Institutive decency. — Milton.

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