Design is not the offspring of idle fancy: it is the studied result of accumulative observation and delightful habit.
Was it because the people themselves, through their individualaccumulative system, created conditions whereby only the most abject and debased mortals could survive?
These debentures were to be redeemable by an accumulative sinking fund of 1 per cent.
The loan is redeemable by an accumulative sinking fund of 2-1/2 per cent.
The same illegality of an accumulative crime and a constructive evidence which appeared in the case of Strafford, the same violence and iniquity in conducting the trial, are conspicuous throughout the whole course of this prosecution.
To this vision the accumulative tales bring the contribution of art.
Accumulative Tales: "The Old Woman Who Found the Sixpence.
The accumulative tales have their service to render.
This is a series of incidents linked together in the accumulative fashion, but proceeding in a straight line and stopping short off without issue or event.
That factor which has added green to the parents will add green to the children, until by accumulative inheritance a more decidedly green race is produced.
There is an accumulative Cruelty in a number of Men, though none in particular are ill-natured.
A thousand little Circumstances were a kind of accumulative Evidence, which in these Cases may be admitted.
This accumulative process is a favorite with children: in early writers, such as Homer, the repetition of messages, &c.
The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him.
Over all these causes of Change I am convinced that the accumulative action of Selection, whether applied methodically and more quickly, or unconsciously and more slowly, but more efficiently, is by far the predominant Power.
When a variation is of the slightest use to a being, we cannot tell how much of it to attribute to the accumulative action of natural selection, and how much to the conditions of life.
How well this practical horticulturist appreciates and illustrates the gradual and accumulative force of selection!
But the stimulus which one invention afforded to another gave an accumulative power to the application of new methods.
In the later era of machine development an accumulative importance is attached to the improvements in the machine-making industries.
To the law of accumulative adaptation there closely follows a third law of direct or actual adaptation, the law of correlative adaptation.
Over all these causes of change, the accumulative action of selection, whether applied methodically and quickly, or unconsciously and slowly, but more efficiently, seems to have been the predominant power.
When a variation is of the slightest use to any being, we cannot tell how much to attribute to the accumulative action of natural selection, and how much to the definite action of the conditions of life.
The diagram sets out to describe the accumulative process on the assumption that the capitalists and workers are the sole agents of capitalist consumption.
The accumulative process endeavours everywhere to substitute simple commodity economy for natural economy.
Concomitant with the accumulative process, and as a condition of the latter, there develops an industrial reserve army.
That is the approach on which we have to investigate the mutual dependence of the accumulative process in the two departments of production.
Surely it would be kinder to ascribe it to the accumulative boredom of August in London, or possibly to a sudden realization of vulgarity creeping up to the very portals of the Albany.
The leaves construct the sprays in the same accumulative way: the only essential difference being that in the sword-builders the leaves are all set close, and at equal intervals.
It is monstrous at page 103, that he should argue against the possibility of accumulative variation, and actually leave out, entirely, selection!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accumulative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: additional; additive; chain; cumulative; overall; total
