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Making a transit or passage. quotations examples
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
1841-1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
Affected by transference of signification. quotations examples
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.
1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
(grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects. quotations examples
Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
1908, G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
(set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. examples
(algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. examples
(graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. examples
(probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property. examples
plural transitives
(grammar) A transitive verb. quotations examples
This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).
2011, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, The Syntax of Romanian: Comparative Studies in Romance, page 136