fugitive vs transitive

fugitive

adj
  • Elusive or difficult to retain. 

  • Fleeing or running away; escaping. 

  • Transient, fleeting or ephemeral. 

noun
  • A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation. 

transitive

adj
  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

How often have the words fugitive and transitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )