regulative en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English regulate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English regulative From regulate + -ive.
Meanings
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Of or relating to regulation; having a regulatory function.
Interpreting Marx as they did, they expected a long period of capitalist conditions and regarded socialism either as a distant prospect with little practical meaning at the present time, or as a regulative moral norm.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 355:
Deriveds
upregulative · autoregulative · immunoregulative · counterregulative · photoregulative · osmoregulative · unregulative · thermoregulative