3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very accusative age." --Sir E. Dering. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, n. (Gram.) The accusative case. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: accusative adj 1: containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare" [syn: {accusatory}, {accusing}, {accusive}] 2: serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings" [syn: {objective}] n : the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb [syn: {accusative case}, {objective case}]
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