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Dative :: Dative (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law..

Dative :: Dative (a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective..

Me :: Me (pers. pron.) The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me..

Foxglove :: Foxglove (n.) Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis..

Gerund :: Gerund (n.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, Ic haebbe mete to etanne (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone..

Dative :: Dative (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office..

Datively :: Datively (adv.) As a gift.

Recommendative :: Recommendative (n.) That which recommends; a recommendation.

Quidditative :: Quidditative (a.) Quiddative.

Sedative :: Sedative (a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize.

Worth :: Worth (v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases..

Antiorgastic :: Antiorgastic (a.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Retardative :: Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard..

Game :: Game (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative..

Dative :: Dative (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer..

Liniment :: Liniment (n.) A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant..

Sedative :: Sedative (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain..

Sedative :: Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.

Laudative :: Laudative (a.) Laudatory.

Dative :: Dative (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1..

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