Ac*cu"sa*tive (&?;), a. [F. accusatif,
L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See
Accuse.]
1. Producing accusations; accusatory. "This
hath been a very accusative age." Sir E. Dering.
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.
Ac*cu"sa*tive, n. (Gram.) The
accusative case.