transitiveadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈtranzᵻtɪv/,

/ˈtrɑːnzᵻtɪv/,

/ˈtransᵻtɪv/,

/ˈtrɑːnsᵻtɪv/, U.S.

/ˈtrænzədɪv/,

/ˈtræn(t)sədɪv/

Forms: 1500s transityue, 1500s transityve, 1500s–1600s transitiue, 1600s– transitive.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin transitivus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin transitivus (in grammar) taking a direct object (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian; frequently from early 13th cent. in British sources), transient, changeable (10th cent.; from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin transit- , past participial stem of transīre (see transit n.) + -īvus -ive suffix.Compare Old French, Middle French, French transitif transient, ephemeral, changeable (early 14th cent.), (in grammar, of a verb) taking a direct object (late 14th cent.). Compare also Spanish transitivo , Portuguese transitivo (both 15th cent.), both earliest in the specific use in grammar. Specific senses. In grammatical use (compare sense A. 1) post-classical Latin transitivus is after Hellenistic Greek μεταβατικός (see metabatic adj.). The ancient grammarian Priscian said that in transitive verbs the sense crossed over from one person to another, and explained that such verbs usually occurred with oblique cases. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin transitivum (neuter) transitive verb (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian). With sense A. 2 compare earlier transitory adj. In the specific use in geology (see sense A. 6) after German transitiv (1809 or earlier in this sense); compare transition n. Compounds 1b. In the specific use in group theory (see sense A. 8a) after German transitiv (1888 in this sense: S. Lie Theorie der Transformationsgruppen I. 212).

A. adj.

1. Grammar. Of a verb: taking a direct object. Also: (of a verbal construction) containing a verb that has a direct object. Opposed to intransitive adj. 1a.Frequently postpositive in earlier use.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > transitive

transitivec1525

transitival1871

c1525 T. Linacre Rudimenta Grammatices sig. B2^v What verbe? A verbe neutre transityue.

1590 J. Stockwood Eng. Accidence 64 A verbe transitiue..is such..as passeth ouer his signification into some other thing, as when I say, ‘I loue God’.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. xi. 153 Others are transient, when the Agent and Patient are divers, and are expressed by Verbs transitives, as striking, heating [etc.].

1733 J. Clarke New Gram. Lat. Tongue 69 The Accusative after a Verb Transitive, or a Sentence in Room thereof, is called, by Grammarians, the Object of the Verb.

1767 W. Ward Gram. Eng. Lang. ii. 86 These are of the same Effect, when placed in immediate Dependence on a transitive Verb.

1845 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 48/1 Verbs transitive and intransitive are, in other words, active and neuter; for the verb active is considered as passing over from the agent to the object, whilst the neuter is considered as not passing over.

1891 Sat. Rev. 14 Nov. 554/2 We cannot see why the Roman boy should make a neuter verb transitive.

1960 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 26 231/2 There are three other members of the transitive construction which occur as constituents with a number morpheme.

1964 Language 40 342 In transitive sentences with a perfective verb, there is concord between the verb and direct object, which stands in the direct case.

2010 New Yorker 17 May 54/3 To ‘next’ someone has become a common transitive verb.

2. Passing from one state to another; changeable; not lasting, transient.

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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

windyc1000

unsteadfastc1200

fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

unstablec1340

varyingc1340

variantc1374

motleyc1380

ungroundedc1380

muablea1393

passiblea1393

remuablea1393

changeablea1398

movablea1398

variablec1397

slidderya1400

ticklec1400

variantc1412

flitting1413

mutable?a1425

movingc1425

flaskisable1430

flickering1430

transmutablec1430

vertible1447

brittlea1450

ficklea1450

permutablec1450

unfirmc1450

uncertain1477

turnable1483

unsteadfast1483

vagrantc1522

inconstant1526

alterable?1531

stirringc1540

slippery1548

various1552

slid?1553

mutala1561

rolling1561

weathery1563

unconstant1568

interchangeable1574

fluctuant1575

stayless1575

transitive1575

voluble1575

changeling1577

queasy1579

desultory1581

huff-puff1582

unstaid1586

vagrant1586

changeful1590

floating1594

Protean1594

unstayed1594

swimming1596

anchorless1597

mobilec1600

ticklish1601

catching1603

labile1603

unrooted1604

quicksilvered1605

versatile1605

insubstantial1607

uncertain1609

brandling1611

rootless1611

squeasy1611

wind-changinga1616

insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

versipellous1650

flexile1651

uncentred1652

variating1653

chequered1656

slideable1662

transchangeative1662

weathercock-like1663

flicketing1674

fluxa1677

lapsable1678

wanton1681

veering1684

upon the weathercock1702

contingent1703

unsettled?1726

fermentable1731

afloat1757

brickle1768

wavy1795

vagarious1798

unsettled1803

fitful1810

metamorphosical1811

undulating1815

tittupya1817

titubant1817

mutative1818

papier mâché1818

teetotum1819

vacillating1822

capricious1823

sensitive1828

quicksilvery1829

unengrafted1829

fluxionala1834

proteiform1833

liquid1835

tottlish1835

kaleidoscopic1846

versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective]

slidinga900

scrithingOE

henwardOE

swifta1225

short livya1325

passing1340

flittingc1374

shadowy1374

temporalc1384

speedfula1400

transitory?c1400

brittlea1425

unabidingc1430

frail?c1450

indurablec1450

scrithel?c1475

caduke1483

transitorious1492

passanta1500

perishinga1500

caducea1513

fugitive?1518

caducal?1548

quick1548

delible1549

flittering1549

undurable?1555

shadowish1561

fleeting1563

vading1566

flightful1571

wanzing1571

transitive1575

slipping1581

diary1583

unlasting1585

never-lasting1588

flit1590

post-like1594

running1598

short-lived1598

short-winded1598

transient1599

unpermanent1607

flashy1609

of a day1612

passable1613

dureless1614

urgenta1616

waxena1616

decayable1617

horary1620

evanid1626

fugitable1628

short-dated1632

fugacious1635

ephemerala1639

impermanent1653

fungous1655

volatile1655

ephemerousa1660

unimmortal1667

timesome1674

while-being1674

of passage1680

journal1685

ephemeron1714

admovent1727

evanescent1728

meteorous1750

deciduous1763

preterient1786

ephemeridal1795

meteorica1802

meteor1803

ephemerean1804

ephemerid1804

evanescing1805

fleeted1810

fleet1812

unenduring1814

unremaining1817

unimmortalized1839

impersistent1849

flighty1850

uneternal1862

caducous1863

diurnal1866

horarious1866

brisk1879

evasive1881

picaresque1959

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 2 Thair waillit weid..Sa gay it was,..Sa wariant to sicht and transitiue.

1625 R. Brathwait Ess. Five Senses (ed. 2) 296 What availes it thee now to enjoy the transitive honours of this life?

1784 Artist's Repository & Drawing Mag. 1 196 Expression should be studied from nature; its graces are transitive and momentary.

1865 St. James's Mag. Dec. 38 The results of combustion are either solid or gaseous, and gaseous results are either permanent or transitive.

1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 8 Mar. 6 At present he is in a transitive state.

1989 Indepedent (Nexis) 17 May Brunner placed the emphasis on uncertainty and the distinction between permanent changes and transitive changes in money growth.

2016 A. C. Adler Celebricities xiii. 169 The true model possesses a purely transitive beauty and charm: it empties out immediately.

3. Philosophy and Theology. Of activity, an act, cause, etc.: producing an effect external to (the mind of) the agent; affecting something other than the agent or cause itself; = transient adj. 2. Opposed to immanent adj. 2.

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the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating beyond itself

transitive1590

transient1601

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > causing

transitive1590

transient1601

reductive1633

catalysing1943

catalytic1945

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > operating beyond itself (of the mind)

transient1601

transitive1785

1590 Remonstrance vi. 104 Knowledge is..a thing immanent and not transitiue in that place.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. i. 5 For all the proprieties of God are infinite, as they are immanent in himselfe, yet in their transitiue and forren effectes are stinted and limited to the modell and state of the creature.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §70 Cold is Active and Transitive into Bodies Adjacent, as well as Heat.

1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 571 Transitive love, or charity to others on Earth, being more his delight and perfection, than immanent self-love in Glory.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 306 Logicians distinguish two kinds of operations of the mind; the first kind produces no effect without the mind, the last does. The first they call immanent acts; the second transitive.

1834 Eclectic Rev. Aug. 102 We proceed to his transitive acts, or his external operations.

1893 A. M. Fairbairn Place Christ in Mod. Theol. ii. ii. iii. 441 It is of the essence of both to be transitive. Love regards an object whose good it desires; righteousness is the conduct which fulfils the desire of love.

1955 Jrnl. Philos. 52 366 Thought is still, immanent; action is dynamic, transitive.

2012 P. Haynes Immanent Transcendence i. 35 Transitive causation is therefore concomitant with transcendence since cause and effect remain radically distinct.

4. Characterized by or involving transition (in various senses); †that has something passing through it (obsolete); esp. that is in an intermediate stage or position; transitional.

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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective]

transitory1592

transitive1660

transitional1663

transitionary1685

gradual1692

gradative1840

gradational1842

unabrupt1865

liminala1916

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. Rule 6 §7 An image that is understood to be an image can never be made an idol; or if it can it must be by having the worship of God pass'd thorough it to God;..by being the analogical, the improper, the transitive, the relative (or what shall I call it) object of Divine worship.

1791 G. F. A. Wendeborn View Eng. I. 105 They receive their profits again, and reimburse themselves by this transitive trade.

1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory of Another Life xii. 159 The preparations that are made by any of the transitive species of animals..for their approaching metamorphosis.

1865 G. Grote Plato I. xvii. 494 The transitive process, above described, represents the successive stages by which every adult mind has been gradually built up from infancy.

1918 W. C. B. Sayers Introd. Libr. Classif. viii. 101 Music is a transitive or ‘carrying-over’ class between the Fine Arts (Sculpture) and the Recreative Arts (Field Sports).

1976 Reading Teacher 30 247/1 In the second or transitive stage..the child is dominated by the perceptual appearances.

2017 Ukraine Business Daily (Nexis) 8 Dec. The introduction of a transitive period for Ukrainian airlines to replace imported aircraft with Ukrainian-made ones.

5. Of a word: transferred or extended in its use; used in a context with which it is not primarily or originally associated. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative

figurative14..

figural?a1500

translated1511

figurate1548

tropological1555

metaphorical1563

tropical1565

tropic1569

translate1582

allusory1587

translative1589

allusive1593

metaphoric1597

transumptive1597

transferent1614

translatitious1637

analogic1638

tralatitious1645

parabolic1696

tropologic1796

transitive1810

transferred1863

1810 D. Stewart Philos. Ess. ii. i. 226 The greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or of the fancy.

1955 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 14 82 Explanation of the transitive meanings of terms requires much prior explication of the real phenomena to which the terms refer.

1982 H. D. Morton tr. W. R. de Jong Semantics of J. S. Mill vii. 177 Transitive applications of a term ought to be avoided.

†6. Geology. Designating partly crystalline rocks believed (according to Wernerian theory) to be intermediate between supposedly primitive crystalline rocks and later well stratified sedimentary rocks (see transition n. Compounds 1b). Obsolete.

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1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 73 This transitive grunstein occurs in the Hartz.

1854 F. C. Bakewell Geol. 5 The lower portion, resting on the crystalline rocks, being called the transitive series.

7. Mathematics and Logic. Of a mathematical and logical relation: such that if a first item is related to a second item as the second is related to a third, then the first is related to the third in the same way.An example of a transitive relation is the ‘less-than’ relation, denoted <: if a < b and b < c, then a < c.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [adjective] > terms expressing types of relation

transitive1856

intransitive1870

irreflexive1890

dyadic1897

symmetrical1903

non-reflexive1905

polyadic1905

symmetric1933

mereological1957

1856 A. De Morgan in Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 9 104 Very many copulæ exist in which this transitive relation is seen.

1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. xix. 159 All kinds of equality have in common the three properties of being reflexive, symmetrical, and transitive.

2012 D. Makinson Sets, Logic, & Maths for Computing ii. 49 For sets, the relation..of inclusion is a partial order. As we already know, it is reflexive and transitive.

8. Mathematics.

a. In group theory: (originally) designating a group of permutations or transformations of a set which is such that, for each pair x and y of elements of the set, there is an element of the group which maps x to y; (in later use) designating a group whose action is transitive (sense A. 8b).

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of sets > in abstract algebra > of groups

reducible1585

transitive1861

primitive1888

simple1888

special1888

cyclic1889

intransitive1889

solvable1892

finite1893

perfect1898

Abelian1900

soluble1902

proper1906

trivial1915

equivalent1948

hypercyclic1968

sporadic1968

1861 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 21 518 We may form with 9 letters..a transitive group.

1968 D. Passman Permutation Groups i. 14 Let G be a transitive permutation group of prime degree. Then G is primitive.

2012 B. Steinberg Representation Theory of Finite Groups vii. 89 By Proposition 7.2.8 ⟨Χ_σ, Χ₁⟩ = 1 because G is transitive.

b. Of an action (action n. 12b) on a group: having a single orbit (orbit n. 2g).

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1959 Acta Mathematica 102 254 Part (ii) of Theorem 3..depends on the fact that if a linear group of motions acts transitively on an even-dimensional sphere then the action is transitive of equidistant point pairs.

2017 M. J. D. Hamilton Math. Gauge Theory iii. 150 Usually we are not interested in the quotient space of a transitive group action, because it consists only of a single point.

B. n.

A transitive verb; a verb which takes a direct object.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > transitive or intransitive verb

transitivec1525

intransitive1795

c1525 T. Linacre Rudimenta Grammatices sig. e3^v Al other may be called transitiues.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. ix. 129 That other rule for the Acusatiue after the Verbe, is of Transitiues, whose action passeth into another thing.

1691 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Gram. 20 The action passeth from one Subject to another..and such Verbs are called Transitives.

1756 A. Malcolm New Rudim. Lat. Tongue 135 Some other Verbs govern the Accusative as Transitives.

1837 N. Amer. Rev. July 45 By adding either the first, or the accented syllable of the second of those words to the radix of the verb, the two classes of transitives are formed.

1897 Mod. Lang. Notes 12 70/1 Almost all French verbs were at first indifferently used as intransitives, transitives and reflexives.

1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax iv. 148 Verbs are strictly subcategorized into Intransitives, Transitives, pre-Adjectival, pre-Sentence.

2014 Mod. Philol. 111 585 The verb construction ‘to seek’ apparently must do double duty, as a transitive followed by the direct object ‘strange shores’ and as an intransitive followed by the phrase ‘to distant shrines’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	transitive
释义	transitiveadj.n. Brit. /ˈtranzᵻtɪv/, /ˈtrɑːnzᵻtɪv/, /ˈtransᵻtɪv/, /ˈtrɑːnsᵻtɪv/, U.S. /ˈtrænzədɪv/, /ˈtræn(t)sədɪv/ Forms: 1500s transityue, 1500s transityve, 1500s–1600s transitiue, 1600s– transitive. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin transitivus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin transitivus (in grammar) taking a direct object (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian; frequently from early 13th cent. in British sources), transient, changeable (10th cent.; from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin transit- , past participial stem of transīre (see transit n.) + -īvus -ive suffix.Compare Old French, Middle French, French transitif transient, ephemeral, changeable (early 14th cent.), (in grammar, of a verb) taking a direct object (late 14th cent.). Compare also Spanish transitivo , Portuguese transitivo (both 15th cent.), both earliest in the specific use in grammar. Specific senses. In grammatical use (compare sense A. 1) post-classical Latin transitivus is after Hellenistic Greek μεταβατικός (see metabatic adj.). The ancient grammarian Priscian said that in transitive verbs the sense crossed over from one person to another, and explained that such verbs usually occurred with oblique cases. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin transitivum (neuter) transitive verb (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian). With sense A. 2 compare earlier transitory adj. In the specific use in geology (see sense A. 6) after German transitiv (1809 or earlier in this sense); compare transition n. Compounds 1b. In the specific use in group theory (see sense A. 8a) after German transitiv (1888 in this sense: S. Lie Theorie der Transformationsgruppen I. 212). A. adj. 1. Grammar. Of a verb: taking a direct object. Also: (of a verbal construction) containing a verb that has a direct object. Opposed to intransitive adj. 1a.Frequently postpositive in earlier use. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > transitive transitivec1525 transitival1871 c1525 T. Linacre Rudimenta Grammatices sig. B2^v What verbe? A verbe neutre transityue. 1590 J. Stockwood Eng. Accidence 64 A verbe transitiue..is such..as passeth ouer his signification into some other thing, as when I say, ‘I loue God’. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. xi. 153 Others are transient, when the Agent and Patient are divers, and are expressed by Verbs transitives, as striking, heating [etc.]. 1733 J. Clarke New Gram. Lat. Tongue 69 The Accusative after a Verb Transitive, or a Sentence in Room thereof, is called, by Grammarians, the Object of the Verb. 1767 W. Ward Gram. Eng. Lang. ii. 86 These are of the same Effect, when placed in immediate Dependence on a transitive Verb. 1845 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 48/1 Verbs transitive and intransitive are, in other words, active and neuter; for the verb active is considered as passing over from the agent to the object, whilst the neuter is considered as not passing over. 1891 Sat. Rev. 14 Nov. 554/2 We cannot see why the Roman boy should make a neuter verb transitive. 1960 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 26 231/2 There are three other members of the transitive construction which occur as constituents with a number morpheme. 1964 Language 40 342 In transitive sentences with a perfective verb, there is concord between the verb and direct object, which stands in the direct case. 2010 New Yorker 17 May 54/3 To ‘next’ someone has become a common transitive verb. 2. Passing from one state to another; changeable; not lasting, transient. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 2 Thair waillit weid..Sa gay it was,..Sa wariant to sicht and transitiue. 1625 R. Brathwait Ess. Five Senses (ed. 2) 296 What availes it thee now to enjoy the transitive honours of this life? 1784 Artist's Repository & Drawing Mag. 1 196 Expression should be studied from nature; its graces are transitive and momentary. 1865 St. James's Mag. Dec. 38 The results of combustion are either solid or gaseous, and gaseous results are either permanent or transitive. 1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 8 Mar. 6 At present he is in a transitive state. 1989 Indepedent (Nexis) 17 May Brunner placed the emphasis on uncertainty and the distinction between permanent changes and transitive changes in money growth. 2016 A. C. Adler Celebricities xiii. 169 The true model possesses a purely transitive beauty and charm: it empties out immediately. 3. Philosophy and Theology. Of activity, an act, cause, etc.: producing an effect external to (the mind of) the agent; affecting something other than the agent or cause itself; = transient adj. 2. Opposed to immanent adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating beyond itself transitive1590 transient1601 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > causing transitive1590 transient1601 reductive1633 catalysing1943 catalytic1945 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > operating beyond itself (of the mind) transient1601 transitive1785 1590 Remonstrance vi. 104 Knowledge is..a thing immanent and not transitiue in that place. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. i. 5 For all the proprieties of God are infinite, as they are immanent in himselfe, yet in their transitiue and forren effectes are stinted and limited to the modell and state of the creature. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §70 Cold is Active and Transitive into Bodies Adjacent, as well as Heat. 1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 571 Transitive love, or charity to others on Earth, being more his delight and perfection, than immanent self-love in Glory. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 306 Logicians distinguish two kinds of operations of the mind; the first kind produces no effect without the mind, the last does. The first they call immanent acts; the second transitive. 1834 Eclectic Rev. Aug. 102 We proceed to his transitive acts, or his external operations. 1893 A. M. Fairbairn Place Christ in Mod. Theol. ii. ii. iii. 441 It is of the essence of both to be transitive. Love regards an object whose good it desires; righteousness is the conduct which fulfils the desire of love. 1955 Jrnl. Philos. 52 366 Thought is still, immanent; action is dynamic, transitive. 2012 P. Haynes Immanent Transcendence i. 35 Transitive causation is therefore concomitant with transcendence since cause and effect remain radically distinct. 4. Characterized by or involving transition (in various senses); †that has something passing through it (obsolete); esp. that is in an intermediate stage or position; transitional. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective] transitory1592 transitive1660 transitional1663 transitionary1685 gradual1692 gradative1840 gradational1842 unabrupt1865 liminala1916 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. Rule 6 §7 An image that is understood to be an image can never be made an idol; or if it can it must be by having the worship of God pass'd thorough it to God;..by being the analogical, the improper, the transitive, the relative (or what shall I call it) object of Divine worship. 1791 G. F. A. Wendeborn View Eng. I. 105 They receive their profits again, and reimburse themselves by this transitive trade. 1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory of Another Life xii. 159 The preparations that are made by any of the transitive species of animals..for their approaching metamorphosis. 1865 G. Grote Plato I. xvii. 494 The transitive process, above described, represents the successive stages by which every adult mind has been gradually built up from infancy. 1918 W. C. B. Sayers Introd. Libr. Classif. viii. 101 Music is a transitive or ‘carrying-over’ class between the Fine Arts (Sculpture) and the Recreative Arts (Field Sports). 1976 Reading Teacher 30 247/1 In the second or transitive stage..the child is dominated by the perceptual appearances. 2017 Ukraine Business Daily (Nexis) 8 Dec. The introduction of a transitive period for Ukrainian airlines to replace imported aircraft with Ukrainian-made ones. 5. Of a word: transferred or extended in its use; used in a context with which it is not primarily or originally associated. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative figurative14.. figural?a1500 translated1511 figurate1548 tropological1555 metaphorical1563 tropical1565 tropic1569 translate1582 allusory1587 translative1589 allusive1593 metaphoric1597 transumptive1597 transferent1614 translatitious1637 analogic1638 tralatitious1645 parabolic1696 tropologic1796 transitive1810 transferred1863 1810 D. Stewart Philos. Ess. ii. i. 226 The greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or of the fancy. 1955 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 14 82 Explanation of the transitive meanings of terms requires much prior explication of the real phenomena to which the terms refer. 1982 H. D. Morton tr. W. R. de Jong Semantics of J. S. Mill vii. 177 Transitive applications of a term ought to be avoided. †6. Geology. Designating partly crystalline rocks believed (according to Wernerian theory) to be intermediate between supposedly primitive crystalline rocks and later well stratified sedimentary rocks (see transition n. Compounds 1b). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 73 This transitive grunstein occurs in the Hartz. 1854 F. C. Bakewell Geol. 5 The lower portion, resting on the crystalline rocks, being called the transitive series. 7. Mathematics and Logic. Of a mathematical and logical relation: such that if a first item is related to a second item as the second is related to a third, then the first is related to the third in the same way.An example of a transitive relation is the ‘less-than’ relation, denoted <: if a < b and b < c, then a < c. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [adjective] > terms expressing types of relation transitive1856 intransitive1870 irreflexive1890 dyadic1897 symmetrical1903 non-reflexive1905 polyadic1905 symmetric1933 mereological1957 1856 A. De Morgan in Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 9 104 Very many copulæ exist in which this transitive relation is seen. 1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. xix. 159 All kinds of equality have in common the three properties of being reflexive, symmetrical, and transitive. 2012 D. Makinson Sets, Logic, & Maths for Computing ii. 49 For sets, the relation..of inclusion is a partial order. As we already know, it is reflexive and transitive. 8. Mathematics. a. In group theory: (originally) designating a group of permutations or transformations of a set which is such that, for each pair x and y of elements of the set, there is an element of the group which maps x to y; (in later use) designating a group whose action is transitive (sense A. 8b). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of sets > in abstract algebra > of groups reducible1585 transitive1861 primitive1888 simple1888 special1888 cyclic1889 intransitive1889 solvable1892 finite1893 perfect1898 Abelian1900 soluble1902 proper1906 trivial1915 equivalent1948 hypercyclic1968 sporadic1968 1861 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 21 518 We may form with 9 letters..a transitive group. 1968 D. Passman Permutation Groups i. 14 Let G be a transitive permutation group of prime degree. Then G is primitive. 2012 B. Steinberg Representation Theory of Finite Groups vii. 89 By Proposition 7.2.8 ⟨Χ_σ, Χ₁⟩ = 1 because G is transitive. b. Of an action (action n. 12b) on a group: having a single orbit (orbit n. 2g). ΚΠ 1959 Acta Mathematica 102 254 Part (ii) of Theorem 3..depends on the fact that if a linear group of motions acts transitively on an even-dimensional sphere then the action is transitive of equidistant point pairs. 2017 M. J. D. Hamilton Math. Gauge Theory iii. 150 Usually we are not interested in the quotient space of a transitive group action, because it consists only of a single point. B. n. A transitive verb; a verb which takes a direct object. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > transitive or intransitive verb transitivec1525 intransitive1795 c1525 T. Linacre Rudimenta Grammatices sig. e3^v Al other may be called transitiues. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. ix. 129 That other rule for the Acusatiue after the Verbe, is of Transitiues, whose action passeth into another thing. 1691 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Gram. 20 The action passeth from one Subject to another..and such Verbs are called Transitives. 1756 A. Malcolm New Rudim. Lat. Tongue 135 Some other Verbs govern the Accusative as Transitives. 1837 N. Amer. Rev. July 45 By adding either the first, or the accented syllable of the second of those words to the radix of the verb, the two classes of transitives are formed. 1897 Mod. Lang. Notes 12 70/1 Almost all French verbs were at first indifferently used as intransitives, transitives and reflexives. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax iv. 148 Verbs are strictly subcategorized into Intransitives, Transitives, pre-Adjectival, pre-Sentence. 2014 Mod. Philol. 111 585 The verb construction ‘to seek’ apparently must do double duty, as a transitive followed by the direct object ‘strange shores’ and as an intransitive followed by the phrase ‘to distant shrines’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1525
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