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registrative en · ADJ

Etymology

From registration + -ive.

Meanings

1. Relating to registration, registering or record-keeping.
   • Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison. 1830, Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional code: for the use all nations and all governments ..., volume 1, page 251:

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