self-regulative

[ self-reg-yuh-ley-tiv, self- ]

adjective

1. used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself:

   a self-regulative device.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-regulative¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

For he aims at showing that the rational will inevitably creates as rational a law or universal; that the individual act becomes self-regulative, and takes its part in constituting a system or realm of duty.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, we may say that an egoist must be doubly self-regulative, since rational self-love ought to restrain not only other impulses, but itself also; for as happiness is made up of feelings that result from the satisfaction of impulses other than self-love, any over-development of the latter, enfeebling these other impulses, must proportionally diminish the happiness at which self-love aims.

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Here is no mere blind, self-regulative, natural law.

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It will thus be seen that respiration is a sort of self-regulative process, the movements being in proportion to the needs of the body.

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The system would be self-regulative.

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