Definition of dative

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

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Dative :: Dative (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1..
Dative :: Dative (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer..
Sedative :: Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
Sedative :: Sedative (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain..
Camphor :: Camphor (n.) A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative..
Consolidative :: Consolidative (a.) Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.
Dative :: Dative (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law..
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..
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..
Game :: Game (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative..
Strophes :: Strophanthus (n.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
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..
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..
You :: You (dat. & obj.) The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye..
Sedative :: Sedative (a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize.
Datively :: Datively (adv.) As a gift.
Antiorgastic :: Antiorgastic (a.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.
Laudative :: Laudative (a.) Laudatory.
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..
Quiddative :: Quiddative (a.) Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative..
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