Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Productive

Productive , adjective

[French productif, Latin productivus fit for prolongation.]

1.
Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.
2.
Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
And kindle with thy own productive fire. — Dryden
This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. — Spectator
3.
Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.