And if you choose to dial into the internet and 'get that news,' that is your volitive choice to initiate, and you can choose to not, and the internet is not forced on you through your walls using the public air and rights-of-way around you. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNEws Demands Civility Among Disagreeing Progressives] Reference
Adjective : a volitive construction. From Dictionary.com.
Volitivum, volitive, is the Scholastic translation theletikon. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
The exercise of the volitive faculties displays both mental and bodily ENERGY. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
This temperament may be improved physiologically, by being blended with the sanguine and volitive. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Grant, which shows a well-balanced organization, with sufficient volitive elements to characterize the constitution. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
When life is sustained by the volitive powers, it is distinguished by a softness of the bodily tissues, and the prevalence of lymph. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
The family and productive work: these are the two pivots of society; they rest upon the greatest volitive quality: constancy, or persistence. From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
The sanguine temperament will add a stimulus to the organic activities, while the volitive will communicate manly, brave, and enduring qualities. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
We propose to speak of four constitutional variations entitled to separate consideration; the lymphatic, the sanguine, the volitive, and the encephalic. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
But if it be deficient, the volitive energies preponderate, and there is a lack of those susceptibilities of constitution, which prevent excessive waste. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
It denotes greater vigor of constitution, one that continually generates volitive forces, and its persistency of purpose may be interpreted as functional tenacity. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
The volitive mechanism which prepares for decision is one of the most important mechanisms of the will; it is valuable in itself, and should be established and strengthened in itself. From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
When the volitive faculties are in excess, they may overdo the other functions, prematurely break down the bodily organs, and, by overtaxing the system, subject it to pain and disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
We will not venture to call him "a man of will"; the consciousness of such a man is always being put to the test, and the mechanisms stored up in the margin of consciousness no longer possess a "volitive value.". From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
It is difficult to state precisely the normal influences and nerve-forces which arise from these faculties, but it is evident that they are specially related to nutritive attraction, in opposition to volitive repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
The encephalic temperament is distinguished by prominence and breadth of the forehead, or by a full forehead associated with height and breadth at its coronal junction with the parietal bones, and extending toward the volitive region. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
When a boiler carries more steam than can be advantageously employed, it is subjected to unnecessary and injurious strain, and is weakened thereby; so, when the body is overtasked by excessive pressure of the volitive faculties, it is prematurely enfeebled and broken down. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Incapable of making themselves beloved owing to mental deficiency, volitive disorders, to the anomaly of the affections and also to lack of physical attraction, they pass from maternal persecution to that of the school, and finally to that of society, bringing on themselves every kind of punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
Fig. 91 is a portrait of Prof. Tyndall, the eminent chemist, whose likeness indicates volitive innervation, showing great strength of character and of constitution; he is an earnest, thorough, and intense mental toiler; ambitious, but modest; brilliant, because persevering; diligent in scientific inquiry, and who follows the star of truth, whithersoever it may lead him. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Bruce Waltke points out that the use of this form to express a wish (the “precative”) can be recognized contextually by its parallelism with the other volitive forms (Waltke-O’Connor, Hebrew Syntax, 30.5.4d). From Wordnik.com. [Solomon’s Song of Love] Reference
Developed from the volitive, 295, 1-8. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
With substantive clauses developed from volitive, 295, 6. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
volitive (hortatory, jussive, probibitive, deliberative, concessive), 273 f. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
270, 2. decemvir, gen.plu. of, 25, 6, b). dēcernē, w.subst. clause developed from volitive, 295, 4. decet, w. acc., 175, 2, c). From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
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