effectual

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Effectual reasoning of the entrepreneur is summed up well by the American computer scientist, Alan Curtis Kay, who said – “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

From Forbes • Nov. 5, 2013

But whiles I outmarched them when they came to examine; as, indeed, to the knowledge and admiration of all the parish, I did in the matter of Effectual Calling.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

He chuckled when he thought of them attacking Effectual Calling.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Effectual cost is all that the political economist can deal with; that is to say, the cost of the thing under existing circumstances and by known processes.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

Effectual is a common adjective, compared by means of the adverbs; effectual, more effectual, most effectual; or, effectual, less effectual, least effectual.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold