a. [f. CONCENTRATE v. + -IVE.] Having the attribute of concentrating; characterized by concentration.

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1822.  Blackw. Mag., XII. 218. The noblest examples of pure and concentrative imagination to be found in any author.

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1829.  C. Welch, Wesl. Polity, 197. The accumulation is the unfailing product of the concentrative tendency.

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1881.  Miss Braddon, Asph., I. 72. Your nature is concentrative rather than diffuse.

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