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Definition of Dative

1. Noun. The category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb.

Definition of Dative

1. a. Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.

2. n. The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.

Definition of Dative

1. Adjective. (grammar) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by ''to'' or ''for'' with the objective. ¹

2. Adjective. (legal) In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege. ¹

3. Adjective. (legal) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; — said of an officer. ¹

4. Adjective. (legal) Given by a judge, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law itself ¹

5. Adjective. (science) formed by two electrons contributed by one atom ¹

6. Noun. (grammar) The dative case. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dative

1. a grammatical case [n -S] : DATIVAL [adj], DATIVELY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dative

Literary usage of Dative

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)
"In early Latin the dative is usual; Cicero prefers the nominative, Livy the dative; Sallust uses the dative only. In later Latin the genitive also occurs ..."

2. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"LOCATIVE dative 959. The dative as the representative of ... dative of Place. — In poetry the dative without a preposition is used to denote place. a. ..."

3. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"In the passive the accusative becomes nominative, the dative remains: Eier wurden dem ... At the first glance it might seem that the dative in many of these ..."

4. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"The dative of the Agent is used by the poets and later writers with almost ... The dative of the person who sees or thinks is regularly used after videor, ..."

5. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"COMITATIVE dative 954. The instrumental dative denotes the persons or things ... dative of Association. — The dative is used with words denoting friendly or ..."

6. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1914)
"He also calls attention to the great difficulty of applying the basal meaning advocated by Hubschmann to a large proportion of dative uses, especially in ..."

7. A Greek Grammar for Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1920)
"The dative is a necessary complement of a verb when the information given by the verb is incomplete without the addition of the idea expressed by the dative ..."

8. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"The dative is used— I. With a large class of Verbs and Adjectives ; II. With a few special Nouns and Adverbs. RULE XII. dative -with Verbs. 384. ..."

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