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1. (adj.) accusative
of or designating a grammatical case that indicates the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
2. (n.) accusative
the accusative case.
3. accusative
a word or other form in the accusative case.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME (< MF) < L accūsātīvus=ac-ac - +-cūsātīvus, comb. form of causātīvus (see causative ))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) accusative, accusative case, objective case
the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
2. (adj) accusative, accusatory, accusing, accusive
containing or expressing accusation
"an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare"
3. (adj) objective, accusative
serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
"objective case"; "accusative endings"
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1. (adj) Accusative
producing accusations; accusatory
2. (adj) Accusative
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
3. (noun) Accusative
the accusative case
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