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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Transitive" Quotes from Famous Books

... then the revolutionary or speculative mind of Europe has been weakened by shrinking from any proposal because of the limits of that proposal. Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could tell you not only the system he would rebel against, but (what was more important) the system he would NOT rebel against, the system he would trust. But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no ...

— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... the same objects exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to ...

— Essays, Second Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... expressing not a thing, but a state of things. Reason was to him developed instinct, and life an element of the atmosphere affecting certain organisms. He held good and evil to be merely geographical and chronological expressions, and he opined that what is called Evil is mostly an active and transitive form of Good. Law was his great Creator of all things, but he refused a creator of law, because such a creator would require another creator, and so on in a quasi-interminable series up to absurdity. This reduced his law to ...

— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton

... (transitive verb and noun), "peel," "shell;" -ko (suffix, first person pronominal). "I;" 'ni (abbreviated from ini), "this," "here." in sense of "at hand;" sebad. "one;" ...

— Philippine Folk-Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington,

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