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sing by birth; having an origin; born. [Obs.] Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth.

A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.

By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.

The quality or state of being native.

Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, t…

Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.

In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.

The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.

three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.

Conglutinant.

Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.

Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. R. North.

Connotative; as, a denominative name.

By denomination.

Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

ving power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. Incidents . . . determinative of their course. I. Taylor. Determinative tables (Nat. Hist.), tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs.

king a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic. That peculiar and discriminative form of life. Johnson.

With discrimination or distinction. J. Foster.

r to become disseminated. The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. Jer. Taylor.