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adjective
1.
Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning.  Antonym: intransitive.
noun
1.
A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical.  Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form.



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"Transitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... is only one instance among many which might be cited from LUCASTA of the employment of an intransitive verb in a transitive signification. ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace

... 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 ...
— Essays, Second Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... of these verbs may be also Transitive verbs with a modified meaning, as: Alegrar (to gladden), Maravillar (to surprise), Proponer (to propose). Here the pronominal form marks the ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano

... spiritual creation, the word mish signifies great, or rather big, but as adjectives are, like substantives, transitive, the term requires a transitive objective sign, to mark the thing or person that is big, hence the term michi signifies big spirit, or "fairy"—for it is a kind of pukwudjininne, and not of monetoes ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... Father, and to possess beatitude and judiciary power, and that unchangeably and royally. But this belongs to the Son as God. Hence it is manifest that Christ as God sits at the right hand of the Father; yet so that this preposition "at," which is a transitive one, implies merely personal distinction and order of origin, but not degree of nature or dignity, for there is no such thing in the Divine Persons, as was shown in the First Part ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas


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