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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or constituting a transitive verb that renders to a thing a certain character or status and that in English can take an objective complement modifying its direct object, such as make in That makes me angry, or elect in We elected him Treasurer.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Causative; effective; expressive of making or causing: in grammar said of a verb which takes, besides its object, a further adjunct expressing something predicated of that object: thus, they made him a ruler; to call a man a coward; to paint the house red. The adjunct predicated of the object is called a factitire or objective predicate (sometimes, less correctly, a factitive object).
  2. n. In grammar, a factitive verb.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. linguistics, of a verb Causative
  2. adj. linguistics, rare, of a verb Factive.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Causing; causative.
  2. adj. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine.

Etymologies

  1. New Latin factitīvus, from Latin factitāre, to do, practice, frequentative of facere, to do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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