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Definition of Accusative

1. Noun. The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb.

2. Adjective. Containing or expressing accusation. "His accusing glare"

3. Adjective. Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes. "Accusative endings"

Definition of Accusative

1. a. Producing accusations; accusatory.

2. n. The accusative case.

Definition of Accusative

1. Adjective. Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame ¹

2. Adjective. (context: grammar) 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 has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects. ¹

3. Noun. (context: grammar) The accusative case. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accusative

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accusative

accursednesses accurses accursing accurst accus accusable accusably accusal accusals accusant

accusants accusatio accusation accusations accusatival accusative (current term) accusative-case accusative case accusative cases accusatively

accusativeness accusatives accusator accusatorial accusatorially accusatorily accusators accusatory accusatour accusatrices

Literary usage of Accusative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"The accusative originally served to connect the noun more or less loosely with the verb-idea, whether expressed by a verb proper or by a verbal noun or ..."

2. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"accusative Object. 267. The original concrete meaning of the accusative is ... In Old Saxon the accusative was sometimes used with intransitive verbs of ..."

3. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"accusative. 370. The accusative is used '— I. As the Direct Object of an Action; II. In an Adverbial Sense—with or without Prepositions; III. ..."

4. A Greek Grammar: For Schools and Colleges by James Hadley (1884)
"accusative. 710. The accusative properly denotes the direct object of an action, ... accusative of the direct object. 3. accusative of specification and ..."

5. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"On the other hand, the difference between the nominative and the accusative of neuter nouns is often allowed to pass unnoticed, because such nouns, ..."

6. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1914)
"vital to the adequate understanding or appropriate classification of accusative uses.1 accusative OF THE INNER OBJECT.« The accusative of the Inner Object ..."

7. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Roediger, Benjamin Davies (1846)
"The accusative is employed, 1) to express the object of the transitive verbs ... In both casee, especially the first, the accusative ending П— is often ..."

8. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"THE accusative OF EXCLAMATION IN PLAUTUS AND TERENCE. Ever since Ritschl brought the study of Plautus into fashion monographs on special points of Plautine ..."

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