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noun

Dative n. The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.

adjective

Dative adj.

(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.

(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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... cases in each number, (that is, six of one and half a dozen of the other) but can only be put in one of them at a time. They are thus ticketed— nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, ...

— The Comic Latin Grammar - A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue • Percival Leigh

... be the sense of [Greek: mantis ennoia]. Blomfield would add [Greek: ennoia] to the dative, which ...

— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

... Grammarians often give the names— Nominative case for the Subject pronouns Accusative " " " Direct object pronouns Dative " " " Indirect ...

— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano

... "al" in this sense, approaching that of "por" but less purposeful and definite, resembles the "dative of reference" and "ethical dative" of other languages, as in French "je me suis brule la langue", I have burned my tongue, German "ich wasche mir die Haende", I wash my hands, Latin "sese Caesari ad pedes proicerunt", they threw themselves at the feet of Caesar, Greek "ti soi ...

— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman

... the languages of Western Europe. Again, the Slav tongues decline many more of the numerals than most Aryan languages. Germany, which, until the recent formation of the German Empire, was undoubtedly a century slow by West European time, still has four cases; or, in view of the moribund dative, should we rather say three and a half? France and England manage their affairs in a universal nominative[1] (if one can give any name to a universal case), as far as nouns, adjectives, and articles are concerned. Their pronouns offer the ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

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