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Directive adj.

Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. "The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God."

Able to be directed; manageable. (Obs.) "Swords and bows Directive by the limbs."

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Etymology of 'Directive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Directive" Quotes from Famous Books

... form, in its later stages, of some communal or social activity; and if that development keeps on uninterruptedly it finally consummates in Zionism. This development, it must be admitted, is not a spontaneous and self-directive movement. In no small measure, it is everywhere stimulated by the growing tendency on the part of non-Jews in almost every country to appraise the Jew according to his racial origin, an appraisal which results in a feeling not necessarily hostile, ...

— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various

... The only other directive evolution-factor that biologists are at all agreed about, besides selection, is isolation—a general term for all the varied ways in which the radius of possible intercrossing is narrowed. As expounded by Wagner, Weismann, ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

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