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Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. H. Bushnell. -- O*rig"i*na*tive*ly, adv.

Determining beforehand; predestinating. [R.] Coleridge.

r facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process. The ratiocinative meditativeness of his character. Coleridge.

Recriminatory.

Ruling; governing. [Obs.]

Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.

Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness, n.

rdinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive. Bp. Rust. -- Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic. [R.] Bacon.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

A native of Abyssinia.

A native of Acadie. Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.

A native of Achaia; a Greek.

Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton.

and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.

A native of Afghanistan.