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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

... (3) Generally, use transitive verbs, that strike their object; and use them in the active voice, eschewing the stationary passive, with its little auxiliary its's and was's, and its participles getting into the light of your adjectives, which should be few. For, as a rough law, by his use of the ...

— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch

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

— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart

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