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Observe the rare use of the passive participle; for convenire is commonly intransitive--as pax convenit_, a 'peace is concluded 629] In potestatem habere is ungrammatical for in potestate habere but is found now and then.

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  1. adjective Designating a verb or verb construction that does not require or cannot take a direct object, as snow or sleep.
  2. noun An intransitive verb.

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  • Verbs are intransitive, transitive, and causative; there are also active and passive forms. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Ah! The link I posted dropped the [2] portion, which gives you the info for the intransitive verb: —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • Cesser was both transitive and intransitive, as early as the sixteenth century: hence the passive is legitimate, and lays additional stress on the state resulting from the action 89 ennuis = "troubles." —  Esther
  • Here the object is implied An intransitive verb is one that does not take an object to complete its meaning; or, in other words, an intransitive verb is one that denotes an action, state, or feeling that involves the subject only: [He ran away. —  Composition-Rhetoric
  • The word sit may sometimes take a reflexive object: [They sat themselves down to rest The majority of verbs in our language are either transitive or intransitive, according to the sense in which they are used The fire burns merrily (intransitive The fire burned the building (transitive The bird flew swiftly (intransitive The boy flew his kite (transitive Some intransitive verbs take what is known as a cognate object_: [He died a noble death_.] —  Composition-Rhetoric
 

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  1. = French intransitif = Spanish Portuguese Italian intransitivo, from Late Latin intransitivus, not transitive, from in- privative + transitivus, transitive: see transitive.
 

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/ɪnˈtrænsɪtɪv/
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