Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as ofa transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but producessome change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine.Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in ita reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in the activevoice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice on thesubject of such activity. This second object is called the factitiveobject. J. W. Gibbs.

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