a. Now rare. [f. L. vibrāt-, ppl. stem of vibrāre: see VIBRATE v. and -ATIVE.] Vibrating, vibratory.
1667. Sprat, Hist. R. Soc., 254. The variation of the vibrative motion of Pendulums.
1675. J. S[mith], Horolog. Dial., 28. The vibrative traine of the Pendulum or Ballance.
1747. Gentl. Mag., 225/2. The sun, by which the ethereal medium is always kept in a vibrative motion.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile, 804. It throbs in on us like a plaintive heart, Pressing, with slow pulsations, vibrative, Its gradual sweetness through the yielding air.
