English Dictionary: accusative | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for accusative | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
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. |