The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a
regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same
sense.
1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil. Bentley. 2. (Gram.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely ...