regulative

[Eng. regulat (e); -ive.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Regulating; tending or serving to regulate. "Submitting their multitude to a certain regulative principle placing them under u the control of our minds." -Blackie : Self -Culture, p. 3. 2. Metaph .: A term applied by Sir William Hamilton to one of the Cognitive Faculties. (See extract.) "I now enter upon the last of the Cognitive Faculties -the Faculty which I denominated the Regulative . To this faculty has been latterly applied the name Rea son, but this term is so vague and ambiguous that it is almost unfitted to convey any definite meaning."-Ham ilton : Metaphysics (ed. Mansel), ii. 347.