a. [as if ad. L. *ējectīvus: see EJECT v. and -IVE.]
1. That has the function or the power of ejecting.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 45. The one a vomiting or ejective Medicament.
c. 1720. W. Gibson, Farrier’s Dispens., II. i. (1729), 57/2. The Ancients thought there was somne ejective Property in all purging Medicines.
1858. Greener, Gunnery, 301. Each shot carries with it its own share of ejective force.
1886. Cornh. Mag., Oct., 428. The giant planets must have possessed corresponding ejective energies.
2. Pertaining to an eject.
1883. Romanes, Ment. Evol. Anim., i. 16. This necessarily ejective method of enquiry. Ibid. (1884), in Nature, XXIX. No. 747. 380/2. Our ejective inferences can only be founded on the observable activities of organisms.
Hence Ejectively adv. a. By means of ejection. b. With reference to ejects. Ejectivity, the fact of being an eject.
1883. Romanes, Ment. Evol. Anim., i. 17. Ejectively, some such criterion is required. Ibid. (1886), in Contemp. Rev., July, 48. Both subjectivity and ejectivity are only known under the condition of being isolated from objectivity.
