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Elucidatory :: Elucidatory (a.) Tending to elucidate; elucidative.

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

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

Consolidative :: Consolidative (a.) Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.

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

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

Quidditative :: Quidditative (a.) Quiddative.

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

Laudative :: Laudative (n.) A panegyric; a eulogy.

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

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.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.

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..

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..

Quiddative :: Quiddative (a.) Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative..

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

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..

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..

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.

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