| 单词 | periphrastic |
| 例句 | But it seems to this reader, Rebecca becoming Maud also speaks to the preoccupation of this entire book: the periphrastic construction of identity itself. From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z HANGZHOU, China — The students were lined up in rows, listening intently as their professor, Li Wei, explained the periphrastic future tense. In a workaholic China, the stressed-out find a refuge with monks and Sanskrit 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z This is the only name known in Gaelic to the present hour for the month of August, except a periphrastic one meaning “the first month of autumn.” Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Using these as auxiliaries the finite verb makes a whole series of periphrastic tenses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z They would have no unities, no arbitrary selection of subjects, no restraints on variety of versification, no academically limited vocabulary, no considerations of artificial beauty, and, above all, no periphrastic expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z The language employed was so periphrastic and pointless that the Colonel was at a loss to get at the meaning intended to be conveyed. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The auxiliaries of the periphrastic conjugation are almost the only verbs that have been preserved belonging to the simple primitive system. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z The periphrastic tenses are formed on the same principles as in Mth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The R. periphrastic tenses are made on the same principles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Manx exhibits the same tendency as Scottish to use analytical and periphrastic forms in the verb, thus jannoo, “to do,” is used like Scottish deanamh with an infinitive to express the past and future. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Coptic presents a remarkable contrast to Egyptian in the precision of its periphrastic conjugation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" No single individual could deliberately have set to work in order to abolish the old Latin genitive, and to replace it by the periphrastic compound de illo. Lectures on The Science of Language ASHI-HARA-NO-NAKA-TSU-KUNI=Land in the Middle of the Reed plains, common periphrastic designation of Japan. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations It is evident, therefore, that this abundant use of compounds, or periphrastic synonyms, grows out of the desire to repeat the idea in varying language. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The peculiar idiom of the blacks, in their conversation with the settler, I have introduced to give some idea of the unintelligible and periphrastic jargon the whites have to adopt to make themselves understood. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter I've been a fighting character," he said, and this was a periphrastic way of referring to his old occupation in which he evidently took great pleasure; "but now I'm a Miracle. Faces and Places This was supplied, in the common periphrastic manner, by the help of the preposition and the article. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Something is due to the proprieties, and to accuse a man of deviations from candour and truth is of course merely a slightly periphrastic method of charging him with falsehood. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion In certain ceremonies seven quids are invariably set out by him, always accompanied by an invocation, the strain of which is usually very monotonous and always couched in long periphrastic preambles. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Conjugation, 11; 93 f.; —— the four conjugations, 98; —— periphrastic, 115; —— peculiarities of conj., New Latin Grammar Thus Caedmon, in speaking of the ark, calls it the sea-house, the palace of the ocean, the wooden fortress, and by many other periphrastic names. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction In addition to the above inflected forms, there are many periphrastic or compound forms, made up of auxiliaries with the infinitives and participles. An English Grammar He might be described as the last of the periphrastic humorists. Old and New Masters Such of his sermons as are still extant are prosy, long-winded, dogmatic absurdities, overloaded with periphrastic illustrations in scriptural language. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 But its fault even in that part is that he confounds the genius of the English language, making it periphrastic and literal, instead of elliptical and idiomatic. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Worthy sir," said Tomkins, in a much less periphrastic style, "I will obey your worship as far as the spirit will permit. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Lesson 138.—Into what may the compound, or periphrastic, forms of the verb be resolved? Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Though the story cannot pretend to support the cause of morality, the style of this piece is unusually clear and straightforward, sometimes suitably periphrastic, but never inflated. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood In the provinces, where a periphrastic style is still cultivated, polemics are clothed in high-sounding phrases. The Fortune of the Rougons Ezekiel, a thorough Jerusalemite, finds a moral way of putting this departure from the law, a way of putting it which does not explain the fact, but is merely a periphrastic statement of it. Prolegomena By a periphrastic version of the general text. Ulysses As a substitute for other inflections we prefix auxiliary verbs, and make what are called compound, or periphrastic, forms. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good. The Coming Race The +compound+, or +periphrastic, forms+ of the verb consisting of two words may each be resolved into an +asserting word and a participle+ or an +infinitive+. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition |
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