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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

2 entries under this word

Transitive

Trān'si-tīve, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. transitivus, It., Sp., & Pg., transitivo, Pr. transitiu, Fr. transitif. See supra.]

  1. Having the power of making a transit or passage. [Rare.] De Quincey.
  2. Effected by transference of signification.

Although by far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy, there are certain cases in which they open a very interesting field of philosophical speculation. Dugald Stewart.

Transitive

verb (Gram.), a verb which is or may be followed by an object; a verb expressing an action which passes from the agent to an object, from the subject which does to the object on which it is done.