a) Making a transit or passage.
, 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. — , The Poet
b) Affected 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. -
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