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

"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

A compulsive, coactive, punitive, or corrective power, formally political, is also granted to the political magistrate in matters of religion, in reference to all sorts of persons and things under his jurisdiction.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by