a. [ad. med.L. transformātīvus (Albertus Mag., a. 1280), f. ppl. stem of L. transformāre to TRANSFORM: see -ATIVE. Cf. F. transformatif (neologism in Littré).] Having the faculty of transforming; fitted or tending to transform.
1671. Flavel, Fount. Life, x. 30. The Light of Christ is powerfully Transformative of its Subjects. Ibid. (1681), Meth. Grace, xxviii. 484. All communion with God is assimilating, and transformative of the soul into his image.
1806. A. Knox, Rem. (1844), I. 20. This high, heavenly, transformative Christianity.
1893. J. Pulsford, Loyalty to Christ, II. 47. The One Divine formative and transformative Form.
