a. rare. [f. jurisdiction, on analogy of administration, administrative, and the like (but adjs. in -ive are properly formed on vbs., and there is no L. *jūrisdīcĕre).] Of or pertaining to jurisdiction.
1640. Bp. Hall, Episc., II. vii. 127. Probabilities of a Supereminent, and Iurisdictive power, in these speciall Angels of the Asian Churches.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., II. iii. 47. That jurisdictive power in the Church there ought to be none at all.
1649. Prynne, Vind. Liberty Eng., 34.
1763–83. Cath. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., V. 183 (Jod.). Who were to exercise jurisdictive power.
1862. Beveridge, Hist. India, II. V. v. 379. It is enacted that ‘the jurisdictive powers and authorities’ of the supreme court [etc.].
