adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a transitive manner; in the way of transition. a. Gram. In a transitive sense or construction; with a direct object.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. vii. 7. 20. The woord might also be taken transityvely for too settle or stablish David in his ryght.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks. (1672), 676. To construe the words transitively.
1737. Waterland, Doctr. Eucharist, v. 115. Ευλογειν is taken transitively in this very Case by the Apostle.
Mod. Many verbs in English can be used both transitively and intransitively.
b. (See senses 3 and 4 of TRANSITIVE.)
1656. Jeanes, Fulness Christ, 32. The divine properties are communicated to the humanity, not transitively, but intransitively.
1660. Jer. Taylor, Duct. Dubit., II. ii. rule vi. § 4. Vasquez … thinks it lawful to give Divine worship relatively or transitively to a man.
1822. T. Taylor, Apuleius, 310. It will always perceive intellectually, without transition, or transitively.
1855. Pusey, Doctr. Real Presence, Note Q. 257. The bread still remains in its own substance; yet so that the whole proposition should be understood, not as actually, but transitively. ‘This is my Body,’ i. e. passes into the body, or from this becomes the body.
