Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself.
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Examples
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It works, but is it not the theory of a man whose will is weak, as we say, or whose sympathetic nature has been developed at the expense of his self-regulative?
Cyropaedia 2007
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Only so will he become completely autonomous, self-regulative.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Progress in personal development requires the individual to pass from objective heterocratic to subjective autocratic or self-regulative ethical life.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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The reaction is now of the circular type and the process has become self-regulative, though constantly reinforced by the recurring sound (which has become a part of the limiting sensation of the rhythmic movement cycle).
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It will thus be seen that respiration is a sort of self-regulative process, the movements being in proportion to the needs of the body.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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From the Boston Port Bill to Jay's Treaty was therefore a period of transition from entire colonial dependence, under complete regulation of all commercial intercourse by the mother country, to that of national commercial power, self-regulative and efficient, through the adoption of the Constitution.
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