gravitative

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Their equality of motion is intact because any possible deflections by the gravitative pull of the stellar system is the same for both.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

If our bodies were suddenly annihilated, the earth’s gravitative attraction would be altered, and the whole solar system would have to readjust itself to the slight diminution.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur

Let the first be the great gravitative forces; let the second provide the truth, the liquid; then the interrogation-point is the curved siphon, which transfers from the full to the empty vessel!

From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Wells, Amos R.

Whence it is tolerably obvious that the detachment of rings will be most frequent from those masses in which the centrifugal tendency bears the greatest ratio to the gravitative tendency.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

Everything then that possesses gravitative attraction is matter in the sense in which that term is used in this law.

From The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)