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Definition of Factitive
1. a. Causing; causative.
Definition of Factitive
1. Adjective. (linguistics of a verb) Causative ¹
2. Adjective. (linguistics rare of a verb) Factive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Factitive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Factitive
Literary usage of Factitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philological Studies: With English Illustrations by Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Ferdinand Becker (1857)
"The above are examples of the real factitive relation. There are examples also
of the moral factitive relation ; as, ' He advised them to peace ..."
2. A Grammar of the German Language by Karl Ferdinand Becker, J. W. Fraedersdorf (1855)
"All those completing objects are comprehended under 280 the factitive relation
which express the effect, exerted by the predicate either upon the suffering ..."
3. Essentials of English Grammar by William Dwight Whitney (1885)
"OBJECTIVE OR factitive PREDICATE. 369. We have seen above (85O etc.) that a
predicate adjective or noun is one which, being added to a verb, forms part of ..."
4. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"It is not possible to assign any one meaning to the suffix. a. The group derived
from comparative adjectives have usually factitive meaning: ..."
5. The Essentials of the English Sentence by Elias J. MacEwan (1900)
"Make king = crown. Sing to sleep = quiet. Examples in which verbs are derived
from corresponding adjectives may make this still plainer: — factitive ..."
6. A Latin Analyst on Modern Philological Principles by Josiah Willard Gibbs (1858)
"Proposition with factitive Object. Skie Philol. Stud. pp. 24, 30, 69 ff. 242.
... This is called the factitive object. The Latin verbs concerned in the ..."
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