Definition of dative

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

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Instrumental :: Instrumental (a.) Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms..
Laudative :: Laudative (a.) Laudatory.
Sedative :: Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging 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..
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..
Consolidative :: Consolidative (a.) Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.
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..
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.
Quiddative :: Quiddative (a.) Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative..
Datively :: Datively (adv.) As a gift.
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..
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..
Elucidative :: Elucidative (a.) Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note..
Sedative :: Sedative (a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize.
Dative :: Dative (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1..
Elucidatory :: Elucidatory (a.) Tending to elucidate; elucidative.
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