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Dative :: Dative (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office..

Sedative :: Sedative (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain..

Dative :: Dative (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..

Sedative :: Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.

Quidditative :: Quidditative (a.) Quiddative.

Dative :: Dative (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1..

Instrumental :: Instrumental (a.) Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms..

Consolidative :: Consolidative (a.) Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.

Antiorgastic :: Antiorgastic (a.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Datively :: Datively (adv.) As a gift.

Game :: Game (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative..

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.

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 (a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize.

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..

Elucidative :: Elucidative (a.) Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note..

Retardative :: Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard..

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..

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..

Liniment :: Liniment (n.) A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant..

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