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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.

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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,

 

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