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Transitive
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What's The Definition Of Transitive?
[adj] (grammar) designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning
Synonyms | Synonyms for Transitive: Related Terms | Find terms related to Transitive: See Also | Transitive In Webster's Dictionary \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
See {Transient}.]
1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
--Bacon.
2. Effected by transference of signification.
By far the greater part of the transitive or
derivative applications of words depend on casual
and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the
fancy. --Stewart.
3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive
verb, for example, he holds the book. --
{Tran"si*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Tran"si*tive*ness}, n.
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