I almost said "periphrastic" -- ways of putting simple thoughts into words. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
This is called the active periphrastic conjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
This is called the passive periphrastic conjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Into what may the compound, or periphrastic, forms of the verb be resolved?. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
I always thought I was more sesquipedalian than periphrastic, but maybe I'm both. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Philosophical Question] Reference
Yet, just as the periphrastic construction of de gustibus non disputandum est suggests both in Latin and Kant's. From Wordnik.com. [Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu] Reference
Embedded in a clause, with regard to and its brethren are increasingly overworked, leading to a weak and periphrastic style. From Wordnik.com. [With regard to ‘regarding’] Reference
Nevertheless, the language has adapted other periphrastic ways of expressing the idea that is put across in other languages by a subjunctive. From Wordnik.com. [2 posts from March 2008] Reference
Notice that in subjunctive constructions the periphrastic form is necessary to express future action clearly, since the subjunctive has no future. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Where greater definiteness is necessary, the periphrastic forms in - ūrus sim and - ūrus essem are employed, especially in clauses of Result, Indirect. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
The periphrastic or progressive conjugation: "I am buying," "I was selling," "I shall be buying," etc., exists in Spanish with the following differences from English. From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
These are called "passive periphrastic future tenses". From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
It's a periphrastic way of improving your company's image at best. From Wordnik.com. [Max Barry] Reference
Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway] Reference
In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
In the provinces, where a periphrastic style is still cultivated, polemics are clothed in high-sounding phrases. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
All of this is a periphrastic way of coming to what I had heard sung in the refrain to "The Hook" for many years. From Wordnik.com. [AMERICAN DIGEST] Reference
Shelton's flattens this out, in my humble estimation, even as he expands the text of the work with his periphrastic English. From Wordnik.com. [Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com] Reference
More power to his periphrastic pen. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Philosophical Question] Reference
A periphrastic insult, not a banal. From Wordnik.com. [The harsh style] Reference
"Worthy sir," said Tomkins, in a much less periphrastic style, "I will obey your worship as far as the spirit will permit. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
“Worthy sir,” said Tomkins, in a much less periphrastic style, “I will obey your worship as far as the spirit will permit. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock] Reference
Past periphrastic future, 153, (passive) 200. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
By a periphrastic version of the general text. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Present periphrastic future, 153, (passive) 200. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
3; cutting peat, v. 306; periphrastic language, v. 198. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.] Reference
periphrastic, 115. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
In periphrastic conj. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
periphrastic future, 270, 3. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
In passive periphrastic conj., 337, 8 f. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
With periphrastic conjugations, 304, 3, b. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
Future tense, 55, (progressive) 114, (passive) 183, periphrastic, 153. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
periphrastic fut. inf., 270, 3, and a. ---- participle, 337, 4. futūrum esse ut, with subjv. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
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