interventive

Adjective

1. Serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
   • The Laws, or Interventive Regulations, obviate or decide disputes, between players, respecting punctilios in placing the board and pieces, and limit the penalties for irregularities. - 1817, William Jones, “Towards...
   • In a hospital setting, midwives are following protocols that are part of a more interventive model of care. - 1997 June 20, Angela Bowman, “Labor Dispute”, in Chicago Reader:
   • His opposition to same-sex marriage rests upon two familiar conservative notions: the view that interventive “protection” rather than encouragement is the best way to bolster the presumably threatened institution of...