Transitive /(?)/

Tran·si·tive

Transitive

a.
  1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
  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. 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. (Gram.)