Dative

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dative \Da"tive\, a. [L. dativus appropriate to giving, fr. dare
     to give. See 2d {Date}.]
     1. (Gram.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the
        remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by
        to or for with the objective.
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     2. (Law)
        (a) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will
            and pleasure, as an office.
        (b) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of
            an officer.
        (c) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being
            cast upon a party by the law. --Burril. Bouvier.
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     {Dative executor}, one appointed by the judge of probate, his
        office answering to that of an administrator.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dative \Da"tive\, n. [L. dativus.]
     The dative case. See {Dative}, a., 1.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dative
       n : the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a
           verb [syn: {dative case}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DATIVE. That which may be given or disposed of at will and pleasure. It 
  sometimes means that which is not cast upon the party by the law, or by a 
  testator, but which is given by the magistrate; in this sense it is that 
  tutorship is dative, when the tutor is appointed by the magistrate. Lec. 
  Elem. Sec. 239; Civ. Code of L. art. 288, 1671.