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Both are active, but in a different way, the masculine element being the dynamic, initiating pole, while the feminine element is the receptive, "gestative," elaborative pole.

The Balancing and Synthesis of the Opposites, by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009

This kind of gestative propensity calls for the 'line drawing' familiar in the judicial, as in the legislative process - 'thus far but not beyond'.

Legal Theory Blog 2008

Part 1 is "Peepshow Pioneers," and it spans the gestative years of cinema from 1889 to 1907, with a look at the ambitious visionaries who "played with light and shadow on the screen."

Tonight's TV Hot List: Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 2010

Her gestative force was probably Mary Ann Cord, the former slave who mesmerized Clemens at Quarry Farm with her plainsong saga of forced separation from her youngest son and eventual reunion with him.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

But this dangerous interval was also the most important gestative period of his writing life.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Her gestative force was probably Mary Ann Cord, the former slave who mesmerized Clemens at Quarry Farm with her plainsong saga of forced separation from her youngest son and eventual reunion with him.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

But this dangerous interval was also the most important gestative period of his writing life.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

If parents have themselves indulged in this vice, they should use special care that all of the generative and gestative influences brought to bear upon their children are the purest possible, so that they may not inherit a predisposition to sin in this direction.

Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

If parents have themselves indulged in this vice, they should use special care that all the generative and gestative influences brought to bear upon their children are the purest possible, so that they may not inherit a predisposition to sin in this direction.

Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

Reason calls the mind to the rule of man's gestative life first, and as a basis of thought, we look at the quickening atom, the coming being, when only by the aid of a powerful microscope can we see the vital germ.

Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872