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participial, a. and n. Gram.|pɑːtɪˈsɪpɪəl|
[ad. L. participiāl-is, f. participi-um participle. Cf. mod.F. participial.]
A. adj. Of the nature of a participle; of, pertaining to, or involving a participle. participial adjective, an adjective that is a participle in origin and form.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict. D iv b, You shall sometime finde a participiall voice of the present tense, as Amante..but they are rather nounes adiectiues then participles. 1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 83 Do all Nouns Participials require a Genitive Case? 1755Johnson Dict. Pref. ⁋36 A thinking man, a man of prudence; a pacing horse, a horse that can pace; these I have ventured to call participial adjectives. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 213 note, In the participial constructions of this chapter..the sentences sometimes have an unfinished look.
B. n. A verbal derivative of the nature of, or akin to, a participle.
1570Levins Manip. 89 Mete is also the signe of some uerbals in bilis, and of participials in dus, as, Mete to be loued. 1590J. Stockwood Rules Construct. 47 A participial..is taken for an adiectiue like a participle, but yet in deede no participle, bicause he doth not signifie time. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Participial..an Adjective derived from a Verb, though not an absolute Participle. a1861Gibbs (Ogilvie), The new philology embraces the participle, the infinitive, the gerund, and the supine, all under the general name of participials.
Hence participiˈality, participial character; in quots. (nonce-use) addiction to the use of participles; partiˈcipialize v. trans., to make participial, turn into a participle; partiˈcipially adv., in a participial manner, as a participle.
1632Sherwood, Participially, Participialement. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Participially. 1786–1805H. Tooke Purley ii. iii. (1829) 93 Their most usual method of speech was to employ the past tense itself without participializing it, or making a participle of it by the addition of ed, or en. 1885Gildersleeve Pindar's Odes Ol. ix. 111 A good specimen of Pindar's terse participiality. 1888― in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. IX. 144 A well participialized or eumetochic sentence. 1902Ibid. XXIII. 259 Nothing could be more exotic than Caxton's participialities. His Eneydos (1490) begins thus: ‘After dyverse werkes made, translated and achieved, having no werke in hande, I sitting in my studye’ [etc.]. |
