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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
factitive /ˈfaktɪtɪv/

▶adjective Linguistics denoting a verb having a sense of causing a result and taking a complement as well as an object, as in he appointed me captain.

– origin C19: from mod. L. factitivus, formed irregularly from L. factitare, frequentative of facere ‘do, make’.

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