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Transitive adj.

Having the power of making a transit, or passage. (R.)

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."

(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.

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Etymology of 'Transitive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... are five: the Affirmative or Indicative, the Negative or Interrogative, the Subjunctive, the Imperative, and the Infinitive. Many, but not all, Transitive Verbs ...

— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart

... most important discipline of my boyhood. The piercing through the involved and inverted sentences of 'Paradise Lost'; the linking of the verb to its often distant nominative, of the relative to its distant antecedent, of the agent to the object of the transitive verb, of the preposition to the noun or pronoun which it governed, the study of variations in mood and tense, the transpositions often necessary to bring out the true grammatical structure of a sentence—all this was to my young mind a discipline of the highest value, and a source of unflagging ...

— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall

... relations; they provoke emotional responses. They not only explicitly tell; they implicitly suggest. They are not merely skeletons of thought; they are clothed with emotional values. They are not, in consequence, transitive vehicles of thought. Words should, from the standpoint of communication, be mere signals to action, which should attract attention only in so far as they are signals. They should be no more regarded as things in ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... BE—gives a transitive signification, as in bespeak. It is sometimes intensive, as in bestir, and converts an adjective into a verb, as in bedim. Be, as a form of by, also denotes proximity, as in ...

— New Word-Analysis - Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words • William Swinton

Words linked to "Transitive" : transitiveness, verb, transitivity, transitivize, transitive verb