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jurisdictive

jurisdictive adjective: jurisdictional.

Adjective

jurisdictive (not comparable)

  1. jurisdictional
    • to ecclesiastical censure no jurisdictive power can be added, without a childish and dangerous oversight in policy1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC

Origin of jurisdictive

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.

Questions about jurisdictive

What does jurisdictive mean?
Jurisdictive means jurisdictional.
What part of speech is jurisdictive?
Jurisdictive is an adjective.

Words near jurisdictive in the dictionary

  1. jurisdictionalism
  2. jurisdictionalisms
  3. jurisdictionally
  4. jurisdictionless
  5. jurisdictions
  6. jurisdictive
  7. jurisgenerative
  8. jurisgenerativity
  9. Jurislav
  10. jurisp
  11. jurispathic

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