Dative a. : Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.

Dative a. : In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.

Dative a. : Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.

Dative a. : Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.

Dative n. : The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.

Example:
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Taxonomy
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Defination from the web:
dative case has assimilated the functions of other now-extinct cases. In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is misleadingly used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of ...