\Fac"ti*tive\ a. [See {Fact}.]
1. Causing; causative.
2. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when
   the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received
   by an object, but produces some 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 it a reference to an effect,
         in the way of causality, in the active voice on the
         immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the
         subject of such activity. This second object is
         called the factitive object.          --J. W. Gibbs.