Dictionary entry

Commutative

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com‐mut″a‐tive (?), a. [CF. F. commutatif.] Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal. — Com‐mut″a‐tive″ly, adv.

Rich traders, from their success, are presumed... to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice.

Burke.