Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Federative"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Federative \Fed"er*a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. f['e]d['e]ratif.]
Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal. ``A
federative society.'' --Burke.
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