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adjective
1.
Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning.



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"Transitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... but a state of things. Reason was to him developed instinct, and life an element of the atmosphere affecting certain organisms. He held good and evil to be merely geographical and chronological expressions, and he opined that what is called Evil is mostly an active and transitive form of Good. Law was his great Creator of all things, but he refused a creator of law, because such a creator would require another creator, and so on in a quasi-interminable series up to absurdity. This reduced his law to a manner of haphazard. To those ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton

... amorous (amorose), but Boccaccio frequently uses amoroso, vago, and other adjectives, which are now understood in an active or transitive sense only, in their ancient passive or intransitive sense of ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio



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