translative
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (linguistics) Of, or relating to the translative case.
2. (obsolete) In the form of a trope; figurative.Examples: "1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, edited by Edward Arber, London: Alexander Murray & Son, 1869, Book 3, Chapter 18, p. 197, But properly and in his principall vertue Allegoria is when we do speake in sence translatiue and wrested from the owne signification, neuerthelesse applied to another not altogether contrary, but hauing much conueniencie with it as before we said of the metaphore: as for example if we should call the common wealth, a shippe; the Prince a Pilot, the Counsellours mariners, the stormes warres, the calme and [hauen] peace, this is spoken in allegorie […]"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (grammar) The translative case.
2. (grammar) A word in the translative case.
Definition source: Wiktionary