Meaning of coactive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
   obsolete
2. Acting in concurrence; united in action.

Equivalents

Examples

“any coactive power or the civil kind”

“Affection? thy Intention ſtabs the Center. / Thou do'ſt make poſſible things not ſo held, / Communicat'ſt vvith Dreames (hovv can this be?) / VVith vvhat's vnreall: thou coactiue art, / And fellow'ſt nothing.”

Affection! Your intention stabs the heart. / You do make possible things not so held, / Communicate with dreams (how can this be?). / You are coactive with what's unreal / And associate with nothing.

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