a. rare. [f. TRANSPORT v. + -ATIVE, after PORTATIVE.]
1. Adapted or liable to transportation; such as to be carried from place to place, portable.
1643. Trapp, Comm. Gen. xxxii. 6. The Ark was transportative, till setled in Solomon’s temple. Ibid. (1657), Job iv. 19. A tabernacle which hath no foundation, and is transportative.
1680. C. Nesse, Church-Hist., 151. His ark should be no more transportative, but setled for a long season.
2. Having the quality of transporting.
1886. A. Winchell, Walks Geol. Field, 46. The transportative power of the stream had become so abated.
