Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Educational.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to educate, or consisting in educating.
- Fitted for or engaged in educating: as, an educative class.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to educate; that gives education
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- adjective serving to
educate ;educational
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resulting in education
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term explanation has two different meanings, in that it sometimes refers to an educative technique that precedes interpretation and is designed to help the client understand the presence and origin of developmental arrests, particularly related to separation-individuation subphase difficulties Goldstein, 1990: 148-149.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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The term explanation has two different meanings, in that it sometimes refers to an educative technique that precedes interpretation and is designed to help the client understand the presence and origin of developmental arrests, particularly related to separation-individuation subphase difficulties Goldstein, 1990: 148-149.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Literature in this sense just doesn't have much "educative" value, doesn't tell us enough about cultural moments or provide sufficient excitement for the bored scholars and students.
Literary Study 2009
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The study of literature does indeed become like any other subject, inlcuded in the curriculum in the first place for its "educative" value: educative in a specifically "scholastic" sense -- part of what we learn in school.
Literary Study 2009
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The sight of him, so sitting, tragically travestying man, has been considered, and is considered, "educative" by multitudinous audiences.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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I think that good Art is useful for a particular kind of educative function, which need not mean a crude idea of 'social improvement'.
Literary Study 2009
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Always, many people who fancy themselves intellectuals ... think romance novels lack the 'educative' value.
Local Authors Outsell The Da Vinci Code! Sharon Bakar 2006
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The sight of him, so sitting, tragically travestying man, has been considered, and is considered, "educative" by multitudinous audiences.
Chapter 33 1917
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One "educative" reel they had seen had begun with scenes in a lumber camp high in the mountains of Galicia, where grow forests of the priceless pine that becomes, after years of drying and seasoning, the sounding board of the Stradivarius and the harp.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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One "educative" reel they had seen had begun with scenes in a lumber camp high in the mountains of Galicia, where grow forests of the priceless pine that becomes, after years of drying and seasoning, the sounding board of the Stradivarius and the harp.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909
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