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Dative   Listen
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Dative  adj.  
1.
(Gram.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
2.
(Law)
(a)
In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.
(b)
Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; said of an officer.
(c)
Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.
Dative executor, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.






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"Dative" Quotes from Famous Books



... system of syntactic cases. This system, which is at present best preserved in Lithuanian,[139] was already considerably reduced in the old Germanic language of which English, Dutch, German, Danish, and Swedish are modern dialectic forms. The seven Indo-European cases (nominative genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, locative, instrumental) had been already reduced to four (nominative genitive, dative, accusative). We know this from a careful comparison of and reconstruction based on the oldest Germanic dialects of which we still have records (Gothic, Old ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir

... brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on; and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie



Words linked to "Dative" :   oblique case, dative bond, oblique



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