a. [f. CREATE v. + -IVE.]

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  1.  Having the quality of creating, given to creating; of or pertaining to creation; originative.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst. (1808), II. 317. This Divine, miraculous, creative power.

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1745.  W. Thompson, Sickness, I. (R.). Creative bard [Spenser] … expand thy fairy scenes.

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c. 1750.  Shenstone, Ruin’d Abbey, 332. Heav’n’s creative hand.

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1874.  Green, Short Hist., iv. 164. There is no trace of creative genius or originality in his character.

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  2.  Affording the cause or occasion of, productive of.

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1803.  Med. Jrnl., IX. 272. Injuries … unattended by any symptoms creative of alarm.

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1837.  Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., III. 130. Laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

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