participial

American  

[pahr-tuh-sip-ee-uhl] / ˌpɑr təˈsɪp i əl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a participle.

2. similar to or formed from a participle.

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noun

1. a participle.

Other Word Forms

• participiality noun
• participially adverb

Etymology

Origin of participial

1560–70; < Latin participiālis, equivalent to participi ( um ) participle + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

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

Omitting the ו‎ which marks the participial construction, the words would stand thus: אבן שאבת‎ A person referring to Buxtorf's Lexicon Talmudicum would in the index look out for "Lapis magnesius," or for "magnes."

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William