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Vocative


VOC'ATIVE, adjective [Latin vocativus.] Relating to calling; as the vocative case in grammar.

VOC'ATIVE, noun In grammar, the fifth case or state of nouns in the Latin language; or the case in any language, in which a word is placed when the person is addressed: as Domine, O Lord.