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Jurisdictive

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Adjective
  1. 1
    jurisdictional not-comparable

    "to ecclesiastical censure no jurisdictive power can be added, without a childish and dangerous oversight in policy"

Etymology

From jurisdict(ion) + -ive, on analogy of administration, administrative, and the like. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that adjectives in -ive are properly formed on verbs and that there is no Latin *jūrisdīcere.

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