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objective

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1. objective - Noun

2. objective - Adjective

3. objective - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to an object.

Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective.

Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.

The objective case.

An object glass. See under Object, n.

Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination. Ambrose

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. Alexander Alekhine

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. George C. Marshall

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. André Gide

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. Ann Landers

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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