"exercitive" meaning in English

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        "(pragmatics) Having the character of an exercitive act."
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          "ref": "1962, J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words (paperback), Oxford, published 1965, page 154",
          "text": "An exercitive is the giving of a decision in favour of or against a certain course of action, or advocacy of it.",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Jeffrey A. Mason, The Philosopher's Address: Writing and the Perception of Philosophy, page 51",
          "text": "Exercitives are not so common. Philosopher-authors are rarely in the position to tell people what to do or think.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2003, Mary Kathryn McGowan, “Conversational Exercitives and the Force of Pornography”, in Philosophy & Public Affairs, volume 31, number 2, pages 155–189",
          "text": "The hearer's recognition of the speaker's locutionary intention is also an important felicity condition of Austinian exercitives.",
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        "(pragmatics, hermeneutics) A speech act in which a decision is made regarding action; examples include orders and grants of permission."
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