coactive

English

Etymology 1

See Latin coactum.

Adjective

coactive (comparative more coactive, superlative most coactive)

  1. (obsolete) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
    • Bishop Warburton
      any coactive power or the civil kind
Translations

Etymology 2

co- +‎ active

Adjective

coactive (comparative more coactive, superlative most coactive)

  1. Acting in concurrence; united in action.
    • Shakespeare
      With what's unreal thou coactive art.
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