effectatious
English
Etymology
Compare affectatious.
Adjective
effectatious
- (nonstandard) Effective; efficacious.
- 1942, New York (State). Court of Appeals., New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 193:
- A. The therapy treatment is effectatious for three or four months. I question whether it would be of any value after that.
- 1976, Jack Rothman, John L. Erlich, John Erlich, Joseph G. Teresa, Promoting Innovation and Change in Organizations and Communities: A Planning Manual, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN):
- Allowing that change agents and those they work with have goals, we focus on what social science research literature has to say about potentially effectatious means for reaching them.
- 2017, Charles Wilcox, Perverting the Promised Land (→ISBN), page 260:
- They have continued in a silent, but most effectatious way, to spread their hatred against our institutions, our laws, our schools, our rights […]
- 2018, Joseph E. Uscinski, Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 97:
- Wood argues this view was just as mistaken, because it assumed the intentions of political agents were effectatious in a way that we, knowing more about politics now, should reject.
- 1942, New York (State). Court of Appeals., New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 193: