Found 2 items, similar to Transitively.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: transitively
transitively
adv : in a transitive manner; "you can use the verb `eat'
transitively or intransitively" [ant:
intransitively]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Transitively
Transitive
\Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
See
Transient.]
1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
--Bacon.
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2. Effected by transference of signification.
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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. --Stewart.
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3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive
verb, for example, he holds the book.
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Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. --
Tran"si*tive*ness, n.
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