
Noah Webster
Effective
EFFECT'IVE, adjective Having the power to cause or produce; efficacious.
They are not effective of any thing.
1. Operative; active; having the quality of producing effects.
Time is not effective nor are bodies destroyed by it.
2. Efficient; causing to be; as an effective cause.
3. Having the power of active operation; able; as effective men in any army; an effective force.