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Definition of Fruitive
1. a. Enjoying; possessing.
Definition of Fruitive
1. Adjective. (obsolete) enjoying; possessing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fruitive
1. coming to fruition [adj]
Medical Definition of Fruitive
1. Eujoying; possessing. See: Fruition. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fruitive
Literary usage of Fruitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bhagavad-Gita as It is by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1989)
"Although the mind may be engrossed in fruitive activities and influenced ...
Action in Krsna consciousness is not, however, action on the fruitive platform. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Moral Ideals by John Grote (1876)
"It will be remembered that I noticed as the cardinal point of my difference with
utilitarianism in the beginning, that it looks upon man && fruitive, ..."
3. The Quest for Enlightenment: Articles from Back to Godhead Magazine by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda (1997)
"Be it sinful or pious, karma (fruitive activity) has ... colored with fruitive
activity. As long as the mind is impure, consciousness is unclear, ..."
4. The Works by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1835)
"... and fruitive principle. Now consider this life, as : is an active principle,
so it makes us the subjects of du- r, of all duty which we owe to him who ..."
5. Coming Back: The Science of Reincarnation by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1982)
"... absorbed in fruitive activity, he has to accept a material body. When the
living entity is covered by the mode of ignorance, he does not understand the ..."
6. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"fruitive, (fra'-e-tiv) a. Enjoying ; possessing. FRUITLESS, (froot'-le«) a.
Barren of fruit ; not bearing fruit ; vain ; productive of no advantage ..."
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