a. rare. [f. CELEBRATE v. + -IVE.] Pertaining to celebration.
1801. Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser, 22 July, 4/1.
| Muse of Freedom, hail the Day; | |
| Wake the celebrative lay. |
1809. Monthly Rev., LX. 335. The National Jubilee, celebrative of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Reign of George the Third.
1834. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXV. 707/2. Walking in that multitudinous procession on the day celebrative ofReform.