a. [ad. L. corporātīv-us, f. ppl. stem of corporāre to embody + -IVE. Cf. mod.F. corporatif.] Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a corporation; = CORPORATE a. 5.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Tale of Tyne, vii. 121. She felt that a maintenance was due from corporative funds.
1841. Fraser’s Mag., XXIII. 144. It is the corporative life that property derives from organic law that makes all the value.
1883. Athenæum, 14 April, 471/2. His treatment of the subject of monopolies, total or partial, individual or corporative.
