gubernativet (gubernativ)

[= OF. gu bernatif; as gubernate + -ive.] Governing; directing. He talked to him of real and gubernative wisdom. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams (1693), p. 39. gubernatorial (gū ber-na-toʻri-al), a . [L. gu bernator , a steersman, governor, gubernare , govern: see governor, govern .] Pertaining to a governor: as, a gubernatorial gubernatorial election; guber natorial duties. [Chiefly in newspaper use, in the United States.] He refused to run for mayor or governor, though often solicited, once declining the gubernatorial nomination after a unanimous choice by the convention. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 128.