Aggregative
of or relating to an .
forming or tending to form an .
Historical Examples
Fancy is aggregative and associative,—Imagination is creative, motive.
Rab and His Friends and Other Papers John Brown
I reckon I might have been too aggregative in my tabulation.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry
Are you not, in general, exaggerating the force of the aggregative as against the segregative tendencies in human nature?
Philosophy and The Social Problem Will Durant
The aggregative Principle anew at work in a Society grown obsolete, cracked asunder, dissolving into rubbish and primary atoms?
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle
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to commit the first act of hostility or offense; attack first. to begin to quarrel. to behave toward; attack (often followed by upon): wild animals aggressing their prey. Contemporary Examples They experience boredom, sickness, early deaths and they aggress, attacking and even killing human beings. ‘Blackfish’ Director: Killer Whales Don’t Belong in Captivity Gabriela Cowperthwaite […]
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