Meanings
adjectiveexactive (comparative more exactive, superlative most exactive)
comparative more exactive · superlative most exactive
- exacting
The duties laid upon the Provost were not of an exactive nature. His office was one of dignity, with good pay, rather than of hard work.
1886, William M'Dowall, Chronicles of Lincluden as an Abbey and as a College, page 70
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