Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Factitive \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.