01 a. Having the power of making a transit, or passage.
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Having the power of making a transit, or passage.[R.]
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Effected by transference of signification.“By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.” — Stewart.
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Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book.(Gram.)