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accusative
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse.] [1913 Webster] 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very accusative age." --Sir E. Dering. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, n. (Gram.) The accusative case. [1913 Webster]
