phrasaladj.

1859 D. B. Tower Common School Gram. 120 A perfect system of analysis must recognize verbal, phrasal and clausal syntax.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue vii. 374 Often we see that we are obliged to translate a formal Greek adverb by a phrasal English one.

1879 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) x. 553 Modern English has made a new phrasal verb, and one that yet waits for a name. In this new verb the pronoun it, referring to no noun, acts as an objective accompaniment, and runs next after the verb.

1923 L. P. Smith Eng. Idioms 6 Even more numerous are the idiomatic collocations of verbs followed by prepositions, or by prepositions used as adverbs. Collocations of this kind, ‘phrasal verbs’ we may call them, like ‘keep down’, ‘set up’, ‘put through’, and thousands of others. [Note] The term ‘phrasal verbs’ has been suggested to me by Dr. Bradley.

1954 E. Gowers Compl. Plain Words vi. 71 There is today a tendency to form phrasal verbs to express a meaning no different from that of the verb without the particle... Drown out, sound out, lose out, rest up, miss out on, are other examples of phrasal verbs which I am told are used in America in senses no different from that of the unadorned verb.

1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts ix. 218 In units such as three-year-old, whether used as phrasal nouns (as in the three-year-old next door) or as prepositive modifiers (as in any three-year-old child), the construction is different but obviously related.

1992 T. Cable in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 182 In English verse composed to phrasal hemistichs, there is every reason..to expect four-syllable phrases to occur with some frequency.

1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets v. 106 This solo puts the semitonally flatted third and fifth in phrasal conjunction.

2003 I. MacDonald People's Music 130 Most striking of the later developments is the lack of phrasal freedom—the spontaneous ebb and flow called rubato which isn't often heard in popular music outside the sixties.