participial
AmericanOther Word Forms
- participiality noun
- participially adverb
Etymology
Origin of participial
1560–70; < Latin participiālis, equivalent to participi ( um ) participle + -ālis -al 1
Example Sentences
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Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: The favorite participial utterance of a distinguished corps.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Rumanian siren, speaking sonorously in a participial dialect of her own, is a fresh creation; and Hume Cronyn's Freddie Potts might be something straight out of the early Booth Tarkington.
From Time Magazine Archive
What participial adjective is formed from the verb "dignify"? Ans.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
With regard to the omission of -ed in participial forms, see Abbott, § 342.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
The important idea should not be placed in a which clause, or a when clause, or a participial phrase.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland
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