Adjective : to settle in a chair with adjustive motions; a thermostat with an adjustive dial.    From Dictionary.com. 

White middle-class recruits were particularly sensitive to this perceived loss of status; as a group, they developed a whole arsenal of "adjustive reactions" that enabled them to maintain self-esteem while acceding to Army discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference

Doctors of Chiropractic establish a doctor/patient relationship and utilize adjustive and other clinical procedures unique to the chiropractic discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [FriendFeed - georgeh] Reference

Psychologists, I repeat, habitually ignore this fact, and constantly speak of feeling and intelligence as true causes of adjustive action; but by so doing they merely beg from this contradictory theory of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind and Motion and Monism] Reference

 The substantive content of a value may directly concern adjustive, ego defense, knowledge or self - actualizing functions while the content of an attitude is related to such functions only inferentially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The use of mind to animals is thus rendered apparent; for intelligent volition is thus shown to be a true cause of adjustive movement, in that the cerebration which it involves could not otherwise be possible: the causation would not otherwise be complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind and Motion and Monism] Reference

Furthermore, the use of mind to animals and to men is thus rendered apparent; for intelligent volition is thus shown to be a true cause of adjustive movement, in that the cerebration which it involves could not otherwise be possible: the causation would not otherwise be complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind and Motion and Monism] Reference

The activity of living, for a cell-based system, depends on its ability to generate and sustain quasi-steady-states of self-organized functioning far from the state of randomness, and its ability to respond to internally and externally derived conditions that perturb its current quasi-steady-state by making adjustive responses, including self-reorganization (as in growth and development) and self-reproduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Now, in as far as it is detrimental to a developing type that it should pass through any particular ancestral phases of development, we may be sure that natural selection -- or whatever other adjustive causes we may suppose to have been at work in the adaptation of organisms to their surroundings -- will constantly seek to get rid of this necessity, with the result, when successful, of dropping out the detrimental phases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

Just as in the lifetime of the individual adjustive actions which were originally intelligent may by frequent repetition become automatic, so in the lifetime of species actions originally intelligent may by frequent repetition and heredity so write their effects on the nervous system that the latter is prepared, even before individual experience, to perform adjustive actions mechanically which in previous generations were performed intelligently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luck or Cunning?] Reference

A motion of adjustive bewilderment, as one might before a sudden change of wind, then she looked, as a shadowy motion disturbed the even light of the room and little Ellen passed the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portion of Labor] Reference