transitive
adjective
having the nature of a transitive verb.
transitively
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a word derived from
transitive.
Example Sentences
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Fled is sometimes used transitively by older writers.
From Selections from Five English Poets by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Litchfield
Milton uses it transitively in Lycidas, 29: "Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night."
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
Shakespeare uses the verb both transitively and intransitively.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
The verbs believe, think, imagine, and others expressing mental action, I suppose to be capable of governing nouns or pronouns in the objective case, and consequently of being interpreted transitively.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
In this line wakens is used transitively, its object being ‘Love.’
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
