- (a.) Tending to regulate; regulating.
- (a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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