regular verb
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It was a regular verb, unclebentley, unclebentleyed, unclebentleying.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
Certain verbs with vowel stems, as τιμά-ω, φιλέ-ω, δηλό-ω, by contraction with initial vowels in the personal endings assume forms not found in the regular verb paradigms.
From A Greek Primer For Beginners in New Testament Greek by Stearns, Wallace
The following is a complete paradigm of a regular verb, showing the various forms.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry
Own, as now used, is either a pronominal adjective, as, "my own hand," or a regular verb thence derived, as, "to own a house."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
He was an infant of moods and tenses, and those not of any regular verb.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
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