a. [f. as COORDINATE v. + -IVE.]
† 1. Involving coordination; coordinate. Obs.
1642. C. Herle, Answ. Dr. Ferne, 3. England is not a simply subordinative, and absolute, but a Coordinative, and mixt Monarchy.
1689. Treat. Monarchy, II. iii. 42. The Lords stile, Comites, or Peers, implies … a co-ordinative society with his Majesty.
2. Having the property or function of coordinating.
1881. Huxley, in Nature, No. 615, 346. The summation of the lives of a cell aggregate, brought into harmonious action by a co-ordinative machinery.
1884. W. Fraser, Nat. Co-ordination, in Rep. Brit. Assoc., 773. A supplementary principle of co-ordinative supervision.
b. Gram. (See quots.).
1848. J. W. Gibbs, Philol. Studies (1857), 25. The co-ordinative compound proposition, where the two propositions are co-ordinate or independent of each other.
1876. Mason, Eng. Gram., 113. Co-ordinative conjunctions are those which unite either co-ordinate clauses, or words which stand in the same relation to some other word in the sentence.
