Men have tried to turn revolutionise from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet.
Is an ancestor of is a transitive relation.
By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. - John Stuart Mill.
There are 3 degrees of transitivity of any one verb: intransitive, monotransitive and ditransitive.