Tran"si*tive*ly

Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
   See {Transient}.]
   1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
      --Bacon.
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   2. Effected by transference of signification.
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            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.                                --Stewart.
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   3. (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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      {Tran"si*tive*ness}, n.
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