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Dative   Listen
adjective
Dative  adj.  
1.
(Gram.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
2.
(Law)
(a)
In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.
(b)
Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; said of an officer.
(c)
Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.
Dative executor, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.





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"Dative" Quotes from Famous Books



... line of second verse, is the German word ehe, "ere," or before. Kuribente ("in war,") is in the Slavonic and gipsy local case, or as Pott calls it (Die Zigeuner in Europa und Asien) the Second Dative. Ik leven,(Flem.) - I live. Il diavolo in carnato,(Ital.) - The devil incarnate or in carnation. Immer - Ever. In geburst - Burst. In Sang und Klang dein Leben lang,(Ger.) - In music and song all thy life long. ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... it may; but would Cicero use the dative after it? what is the more common practice with words of motion? Do you say, Venit mihi, he came to me? C. ...
— The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine - Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin • John Henry Newman


Words linked to "Dative" :   dative case, oblique, oblique case, dative bond


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