a. [f. ppl. stem of L. configūrāre + -IVE.] Of or pertaining to configuration.
In first quot. perh. f. CON- + FIGURATIVE.
1787. Gent. Mag., Supp. 1164/1. Substitute for taste the configurative words approbation or pleasure (which change every metaphorical question ought to bear).
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit. (1882), 52. The ideas are themselves … nothing more than their appropriate configurative vibrations. Ibid., 57. Those diminished copies of configurative motion.
