combinative

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Fame will smell of "tears of belladonna, crushed heart of tiger orchidea with a black veil of incense, pulverized apricot and the combinative essences of saffron and honey drops."

From Reuters • Jun. 14, 2012

Primitive man was a combinative beast, and because of it he rose to primacy over all the animals.

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack

The elements of realism are starkly manifest, but they are moulded and hammered into a work of art by a force of combinative imagination rising far above the task of mere descriptive realism.

From The Road to Damascus by Rawson, Graham