Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to dilate; causing dilatation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.
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- adjective That
dilates , or causesdilation
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Examples
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Cold is the attractive or astringent power, comparatively uncounteracted by the dilative, the diminution of which is the proportional increase of the contractive.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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In like manner, sulphur represents the active and passive principle of fire: the contractive force, or negative electricity -- oxygen -- produces flame; and the dilative force, or positive electricity -- hydrogen -- produces warmth.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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