a. rare. [f. CELEBRATE v. + -IVE.] Pertaining to celebration.

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1801.  Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser, 22 July, 4/1.

        Muse of Freedom, hail the Day;
Wake the celebrative lay.

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1809.  Monthly Rev., LX. 335. The National Jubilee, celebrative of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Reign of George the Third.

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1834.  J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXV. 707/2. Walking in that multitudinous procession on the day celebrative of——Reform.

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