gravitative

gravitate +‎ -ive?

gravitative (comparative more gravitative, superlative most gravitative)

1. Causing to gravitate; tending to a centre.
   • 1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Note on a passage in the life of Henry Earl of Morland:

     The particles themselves must have an interior and gravitative being, and the multeity must be a removable or at least suspensible accident.

   • 1922, Frank Samuel Hudson, Geology of the Cuyamaca Region of California:

     If such is the case, we have here examples of deposits along the contact, and as the contact is nearly vertical Soret's principle might be urged as against the idea of gravitative settling.

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gravitative

1. inflection of gravitativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular