Definitions for: Factitive






Webster (1913) Definition: Fac"ti*tive a. [See Fact.]
1. Causing; causative.

2. (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.

Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or
adjective involves in it a reference to an effect,
in the way of causality, in the active voice on the
immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the
subject of such activity. This second object is
called the factitive object. --J. W. Gibbs.

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