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

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  1.  Tending to exert or rouse to action.

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1836–7.  Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xi. (1877), I. 186. Exertive faculties, the best expression to denote the faculties—of will and desire.

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1881.  J. C. Dolan, in Pennsylv. Sch. Jrnl., XXX. 82. The will is universally conceded to be the conative or exertive faculty.

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  2.  (Meaning obscure: perh. some error in text.)

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1560.  Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 24. Be Fische in flude swowming so exertiue.

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