institutive

From institute +‎ -ive.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈstɪtjʊtɪv/, /ɪnˈstɪt͡ʃətɪv/

institutive (not comparable)

1. Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     These words do not seem institutive or collative of power, but rather only admonitive or exhortative to duty

2. Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order.
   • 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:

     institutive decency

• “institutive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tiv/
• Homophone: institutives

institutive

1. feminine singular of institutif