Definition of "gravitative" [gravi•ta•tive]

• Causing to gravitate; tending to a centre. (adjective)

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• "Because, as Lord Kelvin points out, though it is admitted that Aether is matter, yet that admission is only a qualified admission, and not one which carries with it all the properties that essentially belong to matter, or an admission which includes the fact that Aether is gravitative, that is, subject to"
• "Attraction, whether gravitative or capillary, produces the spherical form; the spherical form does not produce attraction."
• "If such a result can be arrived at by the logical and philosophical conception of a gravitative Aether, then the three Rules of Philosophy are fully satisfied, and the assumption of a gravitative Aether is warranted on a strictly philosophical basis."