a. [f. combīnāt- ppl. stem of L. combīnāre to combine + -IVE.]
1. Having the faculty of combination, combining.
1855. Bagehot, Lit. Stud. (1879), I. 11. A mind … combinative or inventive enough to provide remedies.
1874. Sayce, Compar. Philol., i. 6. The combinative powers of his own imagination.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of combination; cumulative.
1867. Clark Russell, in Broadway Mag., Dec., 286. Those combinative excellences which constitute not the smallest charm of ‘Kavanagh.’
