 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
accusative
adjective
1: containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive
forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes
and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare"
[syn: {accusatory}, {accusing}, {accusive}]
2: serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain
prepositions and used for certain other purposes;
"objective case"; "accusative endings" [syn: {objective}]
noun: the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
[syn: {accusative case}, {objective case}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, adjective [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in
sense 2), fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.]
1. Producing accusations; accusatory. ''This hath been a very
accusative age.'' --Sir E. Dering.
2. (Gram.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, noun (Gram.)
The accusative case.
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