Definition of dative

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Dative (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer..

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Foxglove :: Foxglove (n.) Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis..
Dative :: Dative (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1..
Retardative :: Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard..
Consolidative :: Consolidative (a.) Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.
Recommendative :: Recommendative (n.) That which recommends; a recommendation.
Worth :: Worth (v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases..
Gerund :: Gerund (n.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, Ic haebbe mete to etanne (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone..
Sedative :: Sedative (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain..
You :: You (dat. & obj.) The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye..
Sedative :: Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
Dative :: Dative (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer..
Strophes :: Strophanthus (n.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
Game :: Game (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative..
Dative :: Dative (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law..
Elucidatory :: Elucidatory (a.) Tending to elucidate; elucidative.
Elucidative :: Elucidative (a.) Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note..
Me :: Me (pers. pron.) The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me..
Dative :: Dative (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office..
Camphor :: Camphor (n.) A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative..
Antiorgastic :: Antiorgastic (a.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.
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