jurisdictive en · ADJ
Etymology
From jurisdict(ion) + -ive, on analogy of administration, administrative, and the like. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that adjectives in -ive are properly formed on verbs and that there is no Latin *jūrisdīcere.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) jurisdictional
to ecclesiastical censure no jurisdictive power can be added, without a childish and dangerous oversight in policy
1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC: