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English Dictionary: purposive by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
purposive
adj
  1. having or showing or acting with a purpose or design; "purposive behavior"
  2. having a purpose; "purposive behavior"
    Synonym(s): goal-directed, purposive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Purposive \Pur"po*sive\, a.
      Having or indicating purpose or design. [bd]Purposive
      characters.[b8] --Bastian.
  
               Purposive modification of structure in a bone. --Owen.
  
               It is impossible that the frog should perform actions
               morepurposive than these.                        --Huxley.
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