Definition of "coactive" [co•ac•tive]

• Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive. (adjective)
• Acting in concurrence; united in action. (adjective)

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• "Church in the name of the sovereign and under his authority, possess any coactive strength, executive power, or terrestrial authority, it is evident that these ministers can inflict only spiritual punishments."
• "A compulsive, coactive, punitive, or corrective power, formally political, is also granted to the political magistrate in matters of religion, in reference to all sorts of persons and things under his jurisdiction."
• "This jurisdiction, the actual power of ruling is legislative, judicial, or coactive."