originative
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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imagination, in other words, is not strictly originative, but, rather, appropriative, giving a varied placing to images on hand, just as the kaleidoscope makes all its multiform combinations with a given number of pieces.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
His imagination was not a primary power; it was not originative, though in a quite uncommon degree receptive, having the capacity of realizing the imaginations of others, and through them bodying forth the unseen.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
The child must himself be originative, directive, and executive in the learning process if cram is to be avoided completely.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
On the one hand there are originative factors which produce those changes in living creatures which make them different from their fellows.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
