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Impersonal verbs which are put acquisitively, require a dative case; but those which are put transitively an accusative, as— 130 A ministris nobis benefit: We enjoy blessings from Ministers.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John

Milton uses it transitively in Lycidas, 29: "Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night."

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

The deviation is there still greater, inasmuch as the Kal is, at the same time, used transitively.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

Did the act of conquering pass transitively over from Cæsar to Pompey?

From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens

Shakespeare uses the verb transitively several times, but in the sense of reconcile; as in Rich.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir