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English Dictionary: accusative by the DICT Development Group
3 results for accusative
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
accusative
adj
  1. containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare"
    Synonym(s): accusative, accusatory, accusing, accusive
  2. serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings"
    Synonym(s): objective, accusative
n
  1. the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
    Synonym(s): accusative, accusative case, objective case
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in
      sense 2), fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.]
      1. Producing accusations; accusatory. [bd]This hath been a
            very accusative age.[b8] --Sir E. Dering.
  
      2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin
            and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on
            which the action or influence of a transitive verb
            terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency
            to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the
            objective case in English.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, n. (Gram.)
      The accusative case.
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