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ADJECTIVE
  1. containing seeds of later development
    seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another
  2. having the ability or power to create
    a creative imagination

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  • Form the psychological angle, it discusses the feasibility of association as a key point of originative thought.
  • This originative source is a well from which very different kinds of poems can be drawn up.
  • The book's narrative is too often slowed down by such phrases as "the originative moment," the "enjoyment of fabulation," "semiotic functions" and "habitual topoi. The Founding of Fireworks
  • In addition, the deities who create from nothing or emerge from this void are given a new and special kind of power; for though creators of the world, they remain distinct from it in their originative form.
  • Lincoln's integrity and standing as a "statesman" rather than a "politician"; Wilson's regard for "originative personality" and the national tradition of individualism; Roosevelt's insistence that the country's best and brightest have indisputable civic responsibilities; and Kennedy's admiration for the artists and writers who speak truth to power reflect national core values that tie these presidents to every generation of U.S. citizens. — Politics & Presidents
  • This originative source is a well from which very different kinds of poems can be drawn up.
  • Subsequent commentaries seem for the most part to confirm and extend this fundamentally binaristic vision of Shelley's life and poetry as a mode of endless perceptual quest rather than of existential fulfillment in the eternally unfolding originative moment. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
  • In short, in every case of literary immortality there is present originative personality. How Books Become Immortal
  • Consequently, its own originative activity accrues to thinking, that is, insofar as it is a principle, the dynamics of its principiating: principiare. Meister Eckhart
  • For Shelley, form and function, or form and action, to use his vocabulary, are mutually embedded through an originative process of interpenetration as a mode of mutual containment. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
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