Meanings
- nonstandardEffective; efficacious.
A. The therapy treatment is effectatious for three or four months. I question whether it would be of any value after that.
1942, New York (State). Court of Appeals, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 1933 more examples
Allowing that change agents and those they work with have goals, we focus on what social science research literature has to say about potentially effectatious means for reaching them.
1976, Jack Rothman, John L. Erlich, John Erlich, Joseph G. Teresa, Promoting Innovation and Change in Organizations and Communities: A Planning Manual, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBNThey have continued in a silent, but most effectatious way, to spread their hatred against our institutions, our laws, our schools, our rights […]
2017, Charles Wilcox, Perverting the Promised Land, →ISBN, page 260Wood argues this view was just as mistaken, because it assumed the intentions of political agents were effectatious in a way that we, knowing more about politics now, should reject.
2018, Joseph E. Uscinski, Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97
Origin
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