Tending to or capable of propelling. Synonyms:propellant, propellent, propelling."The faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency" , "Universities...the seats of propulsive thought"
... constituents of a good style is what Coleridge calls "progressive transition," which implies a dynamic force, a propulsive movement, behind the pen. Hazlitt, for example, somewhat lacked this force, and hence De Quincey is justified to speak of his solitary flashes of thought, his "brilliancy, seen chiefly in separate splinterings of ... — Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert
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