Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to influence; influential.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to influence; influential.
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- adjective rare
influential
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Examples
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While I am a fan of the solar-climate connection, far more influencive than what is currently implied in climate models, I disagree with the total CO2 increase as result of higher temperatures.
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If I still regard with any disapproval his publication of letters exposing his friend's unhappy bondage to opium, and consequent embarrassments and deep distress of mind, it is not that I would have wished a broad influencive fact, in the history of one whose peculiar gifts had made him in some degree an object of public interest, to be finally concealed, supposing it to be attested, as this has been, by clear, unambiguous documents.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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In energetic minds, truth soon changes by domestication into power; and from directing in the discrimination and appraisal of the product, becomes influencive in the production.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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