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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Effective

Ef·fect′ive, a. [L. effectivus: cf. F. effectif.] Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.

They are not effective of anything, nor leave no work behind them. Bacon.

Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his heighbor wrong, is criminal. Jer. Taylor.

Syn. — Efficient; forcible; active; powerful; energetic; competent. See Effectual.

Ef·fect′ive, n. 1. That which produces a given effect; a cause. Jer. Taylor.

2. One who is capable of active service.

He assembled his army — 20,000 effectives — at Corinth. W. P. Johnston.

3. [F. effectif real, effective, real amount.] (Com.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; — a term used in many parts of Europe. Simmonds.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.