单词 | suppletively |
释义 | > as lemmassuˈppletively suˈppletively adv. [compare post-classical Latin suppletive (14th cent. in a British source)] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > so as to complete > by supplying what is wanting suppletively1644 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas x. 104 This tenet, that a King hath his Soveraigne power, communicativé, not privativé, from the people, that he is so invested with it, that the people have it habitually, suppletively, and may resume it in some exigent cases. 1894 Presbyterian Q. Oct. 512 The two distinct methods of criticism, the linguistic and the historical or comparative, are most conclusive when used suppletively. 1914 L. Bloomfield Introd. Study Lang. v. 166 Thus we see, in our survey of morphology, the most varied types of expression: first, the unit word, which, if classed at all with any other, must be suppletively classed, in the manner of go: went; then the inflected word, [etc.] 1978 E. V. Clark in J. H. Greenberg et al. Universals Human Lang. IV. 101 Where these verbs have defective conjugations, other verbs maybe used suppletively to make up the paradigm of different tenses. 2009 P. Durkin Oxf. Guide Etymol. ii. 41 The adjective in the general sense ‘bad’ to which they [sc. worse and worst] correspond (again suppletively) as comparative and superlative in Old English is yfel (modern English evil). < as lemmas |
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