transitivelyadv.

c1525 T. Linacre Rudimenta Grammatices sig. D3^v For this verbe, Sumes fui, is construed transitiuely with a genitiue.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (vii. 7) i. f. 20 The woord might also be taken transityvely for too settle or stablish David in his ryght.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 676 To construe the words transitively.

1691 W. Wollaston Design Part of Bk. Ecclesiastes 145 The Verb be taken transitively, as the nature of the Conjugation Piel requires.

1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist v. 115 Ευλογειν is taken transitively in this very Case by the Apostle.

1798 N. Salmon First Princ. Eng. Gram. i. 4 Part of to be, has for its Nominative what would have been the Accusative of the Verb used actively or transitively.

1850 J. W. Appleyard Kafir Lang. 313 Some verbs can be used either transitively or intransitively, with much the same force.

1969 J. C. Wells E.U.P. conc. Esperanto & Eng. Dict. 17 Many English verbs are of varying transitivity, since they can be used either transitively or intransitively.

2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 4 Nov. 17 Nowadays we tend to use the verb ‘evacuate’ transitively: ie we evacuate things such as stations, airports or buildings.

1577 R. Curteys tr. Hugh of St. Victor Expos. S. Paule to Romaynes sig. Q.iij^v How is the godheade in the fleshe, as the fyre is in the yron, not transitiuely, but distributiuely.

1609 Bp. W. Barlow Eagle & Body sig. B4^v Not transitiuely with any diminution in him, but distributiuely, as the Fire in the forge heateth the yron without losse to it selfe.

1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 32 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity The divine properties are communicated to the humanity, not transitively, but intransitively.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. Rule 6 §4 Vasquez..thinks it lawful to give Divine worship relatively or transitively to a man.

1722 Mr. Lewis tr. R. Sanderson Preservative against Schism & Rebellion I. v. 161 Swear by the Creature relatively, and, as it were, transitively, as Papists use to do.

1794 T. Taylor in tr. Plotinus Five Bks. Introd. p. viii If our intellect thus remains in the intelligible world, it either perpetually understands without transition, or transitively.

1855 E. B. Pusey tr. F. Suarez in Doctr. Real Presence 257 The bread still remains in its own substance; yet so that the whole proposition should be understood, not as actually, but transitively. ‘This is my Body’, i.e. passes into the body, or from this becomes the body.

1943 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 2 257 Neither Aristotle nor St. Thomas defined happiness as a quantitative sum of goods, transitively produced.

2013 German Q. 86 396 Kantian intention and moral responsibility ascend transitively.

1860 A. De Morgan Syllabus Proposed Syst. Logic 33 No X gives to another X, either directly or transitively.

1954 Canad. Jrnl. Math. 243 Theorem II remains valid if G is merely an ordered semi-group, i.e. a transitively ordered set with a commutation and associative addition such that g′ < g′′ always implies g + g′ < g + g′′.

2002 Jrnl. Philos. Logic 31 197 The scopes of the quantifiers of a received Frege–Russell-type first-order language are therefore ordered transitively.

1889 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 11 195 If a substitution-group I is intransitive, the letters upon which it operates can be distributed into ‘systems of intransitivity’, x₁, x₂…; y₁, y₂…; z₁, z₂… such that the substitutions of I interchange among each other only the letters x₁, x₂…; the letters y₁, y₂…; the letters z₁, z₂…, and so on, and connect transitively the letters of each system.

1957 Ann. Math. 66 250 By a homogeneous space we mean a connected space M on which a Lie group G operates transitively.

2006 M. Ronan Symmetry & Monster xi. 128 The group of symmetries of a square permutes its four corners transitively.