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ac⋅cu⋅sa⋅tive

  [uh-kyoo-zuh-tiv]
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–adjective
1. Grammar.
a. (in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, or Russian) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
b. similar to such a case form in function or meaning.
2. Linguistics. pertaining to a type of language in which there is an accusative case or in which subjects of transitive verbs behave the same way as subjects of intransitive verbs. Compare ergative (def. 2).
3. accusatory.
–noun
4. an accusative case.
5. a word in an accusative case.
6. a form or construction of similar function.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME (< MF) < L accūsātīvus, equiv. to ac- ac- + -cūsātīvus, comb. form of causātīvus (see causative ) a loan-trans. of Gk aitiatik, in the sense of pointing to the origin or cause, accusing)

Related forms:
ac⋅cu⋅sa⋅tive⋅ly, adverb
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ac·cu·sa·tive   (ə-kyōō'zə-tĭv)   
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case that is the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
  2. Accusatory.
n.  
  1. The accusative case.
  2. A word or form in the accusative case.

[Middle English acusatif, from Old French, from Latin (cāsus) accūsātīvus, (case) of accusation (mistranslation of Greek aitiātikē (ptōsis), causal (case), (case) indicating the thing caused by the verb, from aitiā, cause, also accusation, charge), from accūsātus, past participle of accūsāre, to accuse; see accuse.]
ac·cu'sa·tive·ly adv.
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Accusatively

Ac*cu"sa*tive*ly\, adv. 1. In an accusative manner.

2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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