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Operative :: Operative (n.) A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory..

Apparatus :: Apparatus (n.) Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism..

Operant :: Operant (a.) Operative.

Fourierism :: Fourierism (n.) The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common..

Cooperative :: Cooperative (a.) Operating jointly to the same end.

Nugatory :: Nugatory (a.) Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.

Unoperative :: Unoperative (a.) Producing no effect; inoperative.

Operatively :: Operatively (adv.) In an operative manner.

Aciurgy :: Aciurgy (n.) Operative surgery.

Operant :: Operant (n.) An operative person or thing.

Operative :: Operative (a.) Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery..

Virtuous :: Virtuous (a.) Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.

Arise :: Arise (v. i.) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise..

Effective :: Effective (a.) Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment..

Active :: Active (a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman..

Life :: Life (n.) The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual..

Cosmoplastic :: Cosmoplastic (a.) Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.

Inoperative :: Inoperative (a.) Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes..

Efficient :: Efficient (n.) Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power..

Operative :: Operative (a.) Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty..

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