supine
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The supines of Shakespeare outnumber the employ�s of most authors.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
He is not the virtuoso of supines and gerundives.
From Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay by Morley, John
Neuter Verbs ending in or, and verbs deponent, are declined like verbs passive; but with gerunds and supines like verbs active; thus presenting a curious combination of activity and supineness.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John
Every apprentice found deficient was ordered to be sent to a grammar school until "he be erudite in the books of genders, declensions, preterites and supines, equivox and sinonimes."
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
At first recitation The Roman flunked Stover on the review, on the gerund and gerundive, on the use of hendiadys—a most unfair exhibition of persecution—on several supines, and requested him to remain after class.
From The Varmint by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
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