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Definition of Supine

1. Adjective. Lying face upward.

2. Adjective. Offering no resistance. "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"

Definition of Supine

1. a. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

2. n. A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.

Definition of Supine

1. Adjective. Lying on its back, reclined ¹

2. Adjective. Sloping or inclined ¹

3. Adjective. Lethargic; blameworthy indifferent ¹

4. Adjective. Passive ¹

5. Noun. (grammar) A type of verbal noun. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Supine

1. a Latin verbal noun [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supine

superwonderful superworried superyacht superyachts superzoom superzooms supes supinate supinated supinates

supinating supination supinations supinator supinators supine (current term) supine tense supinely supineness supinenesses

supines supinity suplex suplexes suppage supparasitation supparasitations suppawn suppawns suppeago

Literary usage of Supine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"The supine is a verbal abstract of the fourth declension (§ 94. ... The supine in -um is used after verbs of motion to express purpose. ..."

2. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1903)
"Infinitive and supine. 2314. Of the large number of verbs which take the infinitive in Old-English the greater number are now followed by the supine. 2315. ..."

3. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"The supine is a verbal abstract of the fourth declension (§ 94. ... The supine in -um is occasionally used when motion is merely implied. 510. ..."

4. A Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius by Henry John Roby (1872)
"OF THE supine STEM. THE supine stem has a common base with the stem of the past and ... This common base, which will be here spoken of as the supine stem, ..."

5. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1886)
"NOTE.—Of the few verbs belonging to this class, nearly all have the stem-syllable long. III. supine STEM. 256. The supine Stem adds t to the Verb Stem : am6 ..."

6. A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools by Johan Nikolai Madvig (1856)
"The first (active) supine in um is used after verbs which signify motion ... That which is expressed hy the supine mny also be indicated by ttt, ad, ..."

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