Bible Dictionaries
Regulative

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.

(2):

(a.) Tending to regulate; regulating.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Regulative'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/regulative.html. 1828.