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participle |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Participle \Par"ti*ci*ple\, n. [F. participe, L. participium fr particeps sharing, participant; pars, gen. partis, a part + capere to take See {Participate}.] 1. (Gram.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb or verbal adjective, modifying a noun but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being and exhaustedare participles. By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect. --Earle. Note: Present participles, called also imperfect, or incomplete, participles, end in -ing. Past participles, called also perfect, or complete, participles, for the most part end in -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n. A participle when used merely as an attribute of a noun without reference to time, is called an adjective, or a participial adjective; as a written constitution; a rolling stone; the exhausted army. The verbal noun in -ing has the form of the present participle. See {Verbal noun}, under {Verbal}, a. 2. Anything that partakes of the nature of different things [Obs.] The participles or confines between plants and living creatures. --Bacon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: participle n : a non-finite form of the verb in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
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