a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -IVE.] Of or belonging to the faculties.
1643. R. Overton, Man Wholly Mortal (1675), ii. 12. For could there be a Facultive subsistence (as that of the Soul is made) without its body; then a man might live when his head were cut off. Further, this Facultive Gift, or Natures endowment, can no more be said to be a subsistent living Spirit, without its Receptacle, then the Sunbeames without the Sun.
