Regulative

[regjuleitiv]

Definition

(adj.) restricting according to rules or principles; 'a regulatory gene' .

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Definition

(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.

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