coactive

Example Sentences

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2016

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

From Scientific American • May 22, 2013

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 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Ecclesiastical persons may convocate councils simply, and by a spiritual power and jurisdiction; but to convocate them by a temporal and coactive power, pertaineth to princes only.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

"Physical necessity," again, exists wherever there is either a causal connection between antecedents and consequents in the material world, or even a coactive and compulsory constraint in the moral world.

From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James