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Definition of Supines
1. supine [n] - See also: supine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supines
Literary usage of Supines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"He thinks, too, that the Anglo-Saxon has supines and gerunds among its variations;
accidents certainly peculiar to Latin verbs only. ..."
2. A Grammar of the Latin Language by Ethan Allen Andrews, Solomon Stoddard (1882)
"supines, like gerunds, are verbal nouns, baring no other cases except the ... I.
supines in urn are followed by the same cases as their verbs; as, ..."
3. Grammatical Commentaries: Being an Apparatus to a New National Grammar, by by Richard Johnson (1718)
"Of the Formation of supines, and Participles in us and mus. ... H Ere are two
long Rules about supines, which yet very few Verbs haVe ', and it is meerly ..."
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