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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, adjective [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See {Transient}.]
1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] --Bacon.
2. 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.
3. (Gram.) 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. -- {Tran"si*tive*ly}, adverb -- {Tran"si*tive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
transitive
adjective: designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning [ant: {intransitive}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "transitive": adjectival, adverbial, attributive, auxiliary, auxiliary verb, brittle, capricious, changeable, conjunctive, copula, copulative, correct, corruptible, deciduous, defective verb, deponent verb, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, finite verb, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, formal, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, functional, glossematic, grammatic, impermanent, impersonal verb, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, infinitive, insubstantial, intransitive, intransitive verb, linking, linking verb, modal auxiliary, momentary, mortal, mutable, neuter verb, nominal, nondurable, nonpermanent, participial, passing, perishable, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, short-lived, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic, temporal, temporary, transient, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, verb, verb phrase, verbal, volatile
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
transitive A relation R is transitive if x R y & y R z => x R z. Equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all transitive.
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