单词 | subcontinuative |
释义 | subcontinuativen.adj. Grammar. A conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, esp. one which continues an idea introduced in the main clause. Cf. continuative n. a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [noun] > other specific types of conjunction rationalc1450 subcontinuativea1504 causal1530 conditional1591 perfective1735 positive1751 suppositive1751 vav conversive1828 a1504 J. Holt Lac Puerorum (1508) i. sig. Cviiv Of coniunctions. Some be..Subcontinuatyues, as quin quia. c1525 T. Linacre Rudimenta Grammatices sig. d4v Of coniunctions, some be copulatyues... Some [be] called subcontinuatyues, as quoniam, postq[uam], quando quando quidem. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement ii. f. lix And whan soeuer he [sc. the conjunction que] is used, signifieng that or than, he hath for the moost parte a sentence folowynge hym: and therfore I haue here rehersed hym amongest the subcontinuatyues. B. adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > mood > [adjective] > other spec. conditional1530 subcontinuative1530 precatory1610 consuetudinal1728 conjunctive1736 precative1751 requisitive1751 adhortative1815 potential1837 jussive1846 obligative1877 hypothetical1892 permissive1892 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement ii. f. lix I have here rehersed hym [sc. the coniunction que] amongest the subcontinuatyues and called one of the vii modes, belongynge to verbes actyues parsonalles, the subiunctyue mode or subcontinuatyue mode. 2. Of a conjunction: that introduces a subordinate clause, esp. one continuing an idea introduced in the main clause. Cf. subjunctive adj. 2. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [adjective] > other specific types of conjunction conversive1751 suppositive1751 subcontinuative1786 positive1797 arrestive1863 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. ii. 245 The old Greek Grammarians confined the name Συναπτικοὶ, and the Latin that of Continuativæ to those Conjunctions, which he have called Suppositive or Conditional, while the Positive they called παρασυναπτικοὶ, or Subcontinuativæ.] 1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα vii. 153 We shall get rid of that farrago of useless distinctions [of Conjunctions] into Conjunctive, Adjunctive, Disjunctive, Subdisjunctive,..Continuative, Subcontinuative. 1812 T. Taylor Diss. Philos. Aristotle ii. i. 216 The words, ‘If, therefore’, are assimilated to a sub-continuative conjunction, on account of evidence. 2004 S. Ebbesen in S. K. Strange & J. Zupko Stoicism vi. 117 He [sc. Abelard] tells us that its champions claim that subcontinuative conjunctions glue sentences together just as well as continuative conjunctions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1504 |
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