a. [f. AFFINITY after infinity, infinitive: see -IVE.] Characterized by affinity; closely connected or related.
1651. Willan, Astræa, A iij. By the Reflection of your affinitive eminence in Vertue and Beauty, It hath presumed to assume a Being more communicable.
1880. J. Hatton, Three Recruits, I. I. i. 10. The kitten playing with that ball of yellow thread somehow struck Oliver North as affinitive to his own position.
