2. Effected by transference of signification.
By far the greater part of the transitive or
derivative applications of words depend on casual
and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the
fancy. --Stewart.
3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive
verb, for example, he holds the book. --
{Tran"si*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Tran"si*tive*ness}, n.