a. [f. COLLOCATE v. + -IVE.]
1. Of the nature of, or relating to, collocation.
1826. G. S. Faber, Diffic. Romanism (1853), 240. Collocative arrangement.
1873. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2), § 562. The Gothic faculty of collocative structure.
2. Having the attribute of properly disposing.
1875. Poste, Gaius, I. (ed. 2), 3. A Title is a fact Collocative of Rights and Obligations…. note, The term Collocative has been substituted for Bentham’s term Dispositive.
