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
His imagination was not a primary power; it was not originative, though in a quite uncommon degree receptive, having the capacity of realizing the imaginations of others, and through them bodying forth the unseen.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
The will, therefore, as being more originative, has more to do with true or false judgments than the understanding.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
The child must himself be originative, directive, and executive in the learning process if cram is to be avoided completely.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
By the mere act of volition He gave birth to the Logos, who was the real originative cause of things.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by Sanday, William
