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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

nominativus

belonging to a name, nominative.]

(Gram.)

Giving a name; naming; designating; – said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.

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Noun.

The nominative case.

Adj.

Pertaining to the name which precedes a verb, or to the first case of nouns; as the nominative case or nominative word.