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transitively |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Transitive \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: transitively adv : in a transitive manner; "you can use the verb `eat' transitively or intransitively" [ant: {intransitively}]
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