participial
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Origin of participial
1560–70; < Latin participiālis, equivalent to participi ( um ) participle + -ālis -al 1
Vocabulary lists containing participial
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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
Discriminating writers place minor ideas in subordinate clauses, consign still less important ideas to participial or prepositional phrases, and omit trivial details altogether.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland
With regard to the omission of -ed in participial forms, see Abbott, § 342.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
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