Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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FORM'ATIVE, adjective
1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic.
The meanest plant cannot be raised without seeds, by any formative power residing in the soil.
2. In grammar, serving to form; derivative; not radical; as a termination merely formative
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