combinative

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Fame will smell of "tears of belladonna, crushed heart of tiger orchidea with a black veil of incense, pulverized apricot and the combinative essences of saffron and honey drops."

From Reuters • Jun. 14, 2012

The elements of realism are starkly manifest, but they are moulded and hammered into a work of art by a force of combinative imagination rising far above the task of mere descriptive realism.

From The Road to Damascus by Rawson, Graham

Primitive man was a combinative beast, and because of it he rose to primacy over all the animals.

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack