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adverb Gram.|ˈædvɜːb|
[a. Fr. adverbe, ad. L. adverbium, f. ad to + verbum word, verb; according to Priscian ‘cujus significatio verbis adjicitur;’ a literal rendering of Gr. ἐπίρρηµα, something additional to the predication.]
Name of one of the Parts of Speech: a word used to express the attribute of an attribute; which expresses any relation of place, time, circumstance, causality, manner, or degree, or which modifies or limits an attribute, or predicate, or their modification; a word that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb. Also used attrib.
1530Palsgr. 800 It is harde to a lerner to discerne the difference bytwene an adverbe and the other partes of spetche. 1620Ford Linea Vitæ (1843) 64 This man not only liues but liues well, remembring alwayes the old adage, that ‘God is the rewarder of aduerbes not of nownes.’ c1620A. Hume Orthogr. Brit. Tong. (1865) 32 An adverb is a word adhering mast commonlie with a verb. 1827Coleridge Table Talk 38 Modify the verb by the noun, that is, by being, and you have the Adverb. 1873R. Morris Eng. Accid. xiv. §310 Adverbs are mostly either abbreviations of words (or phrases) belonging to other parts of speech, or particular cases of nouns and pronouns. Ibid. ix. §63 Many relational adverbs are formed from demonstrative pronouns, as he-re, hi-ther, whe-n. 1879Whitney Sanskr. Gram. 352 Of still more limited use, and of noun rather than adverb-value. |