"Accusative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lay the blame on, bring home to; cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth; cast the first stone at. have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to pluck with. trump up a charge. Adj. accusing &c v.; accusatory, accusative; imputative, denunciatory; recriminatory, criminatory^. accused &c v.; suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance; in custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention. accusable, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... with the accusative, meaning towards a person, comes often in the Iliad; once in the Odyssey. But it comes four times in Iliad, Book X., which almost every critic scouts as very "late" indeed. If so, why does the "late" Odyssey not deal in this grammatical ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... to." This is a necessarily clumsy tag to represent the "nominative" (subjective) in contrast to the "accusative" (objective).] ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir |
