Word Meanings - ACCUSATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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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. (more info) 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very accusative age." Sir E. Dering.
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- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - LATINIZATION
The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold. - OBJECTIVENESS
Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - MOTIONER
One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. - MOTIONIST
A mover. - OBJECTIST
One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - OBJECT
before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - OBJECTIVATE
To objectify. - GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. - GREEKLING
A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - GREEKISH
Peculiar to Greece. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - IMMEDIATE
1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak. - ACTIONABLE
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. - OBJECTLESS
Having no object; purposeless. - OSCILLATING
That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - VACILLATING
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - NERVIMOTION
The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - REDACTION
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - PLATINIRIDIUM
A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,