accusative

• She had a curious, secretive air, not in the least mournful nor accusative, as Myra had feared. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• The suppression of the relative, both nominative and accusative or dative, is not uncommon; and, until the reader becomes familiar with it, it often gives, especially if the suppression is that of a subject relative, a momentary, but only a momentary, check to the understanding of a passage The following examples are from `The Ring and the Book Checking the song of praise in me, had else Swelled to the full for God's will done on earth I. The Ring and the Book, v. —  An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
• See Heyne's note Footnote 469: Τῆ is an old imperative from a root formed like according to Doric analogy.... In all cases it stands either quite absolute, that is, with the object understood, or the accusative belongs to a verb immediately following." —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• Others make the accusative, and take transitively O gods! —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• Either accusative or dative would be acceptable enough with latere_. —  The Last Poems of Ovid

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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