Ac*cu"sa*tive , n. (Gram.) The accusative case.
Ac*cu"sa*tive (&?;), a.
[F. accusatif, L.
accusativus (in sense 2),
fr. accusare. See Accuse.]
1.
Producing accusations; accusatory.
"This hath been a very
accusative age."
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.
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