coactive

Example Sentences

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Yossarian shook his head and explained that deja vu was just a momentary infinitesimal lag in the operation of two coactive sensory nerve centers that commonly functioned simultaneously.

From Literature

With what’s unreal: thou coactive art, And fellow’st nothing.

From The Guardian

And many creatures are coactive partners in their dance with destiny.

From Scientific American

For if the Apostles needed not to be joined with him, he had no title to be called the Foundation; and if he had no coactive power over the Apostles, he did not share the property by which Christ is the Rock and Foundation.

From Project Gutenberg

They have distinct natures: the civil is a magisterial, the ecclesiastic is a ministerial government; the one is the power of the sword, the other of the keys; the one put forth in political punishments, the other in ecclesiastic censures: In the old testament, the magistrate's power was coactive, by death, banishment, confiscation, &c.

From Project Gutenberg