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periphrastic
(encz) | periphrastic,opisný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
periphrastic
(encz) | periphrastic,perifrastický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Periphrastic
(gcide) | Periphrastic \Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
\Per`i*phras"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. p['e]riphrastique.]
Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary;
characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
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Periphrastic conjugation (Gram.), a conjugation formed by
the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
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periphrastic
(wn) | periphrastic
adj 1: roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for
circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than
forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-
out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the
intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot;
(`ambagious' is archaic) [syn: circumlocutious,
circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious] |
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Periphrastic
(gcide) | Periphrastic \Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
\Per`i*phras"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. p['e]riphrastique.]
Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary;
characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
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Periphrastic conjugation (Gram.), a conjugation formed by
the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
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Periphrastic conjugation
(gcide) | Periphrastic \Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
\Per`i*phras"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. p['e]riphrastique.]
Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary;
characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
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Periphrastic conjugation (Gram.), a conjugation formed by
the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
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Periphrastical
(gcide) | Periphrastic \Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
\Per`i*phras"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. p['e]riphrastique.]
Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary;
characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
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Periphrastic conjugation (Gram.), a conjugation formed by
the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
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Periphrastically
(gcide) | Periphrastically \Per`i*phras"tic*al*ly\, adv.
With circumlocution.
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