disseminative

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English

Etymology

From disseminate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

disseminative (comparative more disseminative, superlative most disseminative)

  1. Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: James Flesher, for Richard Royston , →OCLC:
      The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disseminative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)