Relating to or characteristic of a congress; tending to gather or assemble together.
From congress + -ive (adjective suffix meaning 'tending to'). This rare adjective never became standard, overshadowed by 'congressional' which formed earlier.
'Congressive' had a fighting chance against 'congressional,' but the latter won partly because '-ional' is more productive in English for forming governmental adjectives.
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