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Factitive
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What's The Definition Of Factitive?Synonyms | Synonyms for Factitive: Related Terms | Find terms related to Factitive: See Also | Factitive In Webster's Dictionary \Fac"ti*tive\ a. [See {Fact}.]
1. Causing; causative.
2. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when
the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received
by an object, but produces some change in the object, as
when we say, He made the water wine.
Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or
adjective involves in it a reference to an effect,
in the way of causality, in the active voice on the
immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the
subject of such activity. This second object is
called the factitive object. --J. W. Gibbs.
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