The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]
Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
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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. (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. [1913 Webster] -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. -- Tran"si*tive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a transitive manner.
WordNet
adv. in a transitive manner; "you can use the verb `eat' transitively or intransitively" [ant: intransitively]
Usage examples of "transitively".
In the pre-technological era within western societies, and in many other cultural traditions, explanations run transitively, in both directions between biology and physics.