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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in
sense 2), fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.]
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1. Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very
accusative age." --Sir E. Dering.
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2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin
and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on
which the action or influence of a transitive verb
terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency
to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the
objective case in English.
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