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We may imagine, that traces of organic substances, mixed with the hydrocyanic acid, gradually decompose it by a contactive process; and that sulphuric acid hinders the process by charring these matters.

1853, Gabriel Gustav Valentin, A Text Book of Physiology, page 104

Mead's (14) "recommendations" for the control of the spread of the plague in England embodied all the essential principles of restriction of contactive diseases by measures directed to the control of persons and their immediate contactive environments in use at the present day.

1924, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication - Volume 351, page 98

To exclude secondary plasticity in the hardening layer while its pressing with internal one and during following loadings, the autofretting is realized in cyclic regime "loading-absolute unloading" and is finished at the stabilization of contactive stresses level on the mating surfaces (as a rule after 4 - 5 "loading-unloading" cycles)

1996, S.V. Miroshnichenko, V.G. Synkov, “Strength of the High Pressure Chamber Made from Paramagnetic Materials”, in W Trzeciakowski, editor, High Pressure Science And Technology, page 39

Thus the proposed definition explains why the suffixes -aa and -vaa sometimes fail to signal the contrast between contactive and non-contactive causation.

1982, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language - Volume 58, page 827

More generally, semantically absolutive normally marks an entity as participating as a whole in the situation identified by the verb, though not necessarily contactive, involving location.

2006, John M. Anderson, Modern Grammars of Case, page 131

In series, re and direct object òè 'leg' join gbe to express contactive 'kick.'

2016, Ronald P. Schaefer, Francis O. Egbokhare, A Grammar of Emai, page 631

Contactive language resembles ritual language in its formulistic character ( " How are you," "What's new?" etc. ) but differs in its tone and purpose.

1972, Henry F. Beechhold, John L. Behling, The Science of Language and the Art of Teaching, page 27

Slightly more complex than impulsive patterns are contactive patterns. Contactive patterns are most frequently used when we are attempting to initiate "contact" or gain the attention of another person.

1983, John R. Bittner, Each Other: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication, page 122

Similarly, overviews of the evening's program or of the program for the following day should be understood as part of the contactive dimension.

1994, Jürgen E. Müller, Towards a Pragmatics of the Audiovisual: Theory and History, page 115