单词 | prolative |
释义 | prolativeadj.ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > spoken or uttered expressed1548 verbal1580 outspoken1652 prolative1691 enunciative1831 spoken1851 phatic1923 1691 W. Nicholls Answer Naked Gospel 93 The learned Fathers in the Church have been always careful, to distinguish between..the prolative, or enunciative word, and the essential and substantial one. 2. Grammar. Having the function of extending or completing a predication. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to a predicate > extending or completing the predication prolative1866 1866 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Primer 110 The Infinitive stands... 4. Prolately, after Prolative Verbs and Adjectives. 1876 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. (ed. 4) Index I Prolative Relation,..that in which Predication is extended by an Infinitive added to Verbs, Participles, or Adjectives. 1902 F. Ritchie Pract. Eng. Gram. 117 In analyzing such sentences as..(We must hasten, You can go) the Verb with the Infinitive may be taken together as forming a sort of Complex Verb. An Infinitive so used may be called Prolative. 1965 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 69 39 Tetigisse and inseruisse are prolative infinitives after cupiam. 1997 S. J. Harrison Aeneid 10 82 In poetry this ‘prolative’ infinitive replaces the prosaic gerundive after nouns expressing wish, desire, and other verbal notions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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