originative

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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Rome, while she lent her imperial quality of grandeur to the genius of her aliens, was in no sense originative.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

I am directly or indirectly related as Will, as an originative cause of activity, with a larger portion of my organism, many parts of which are quite distinct from the cognitive portion.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

Youth is daring and originative; middle age is less venturesome, but it possesses, on the other hand, a wider range of experience.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

Imagination, in other words, is not strictly originative, but, rather, appropriative, giving a varied placing to images on hand, just as the kaleidoscope makes all its multiform combinations with a given number of pieces.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)