Grammar. a verb of addressing, summoning, or invoking.

Grammar. An active form of a verb.

Grammar. A passive form of a verb.

Grammar. Expressing existence; in substantive verb (formerly verb substantive): the verb ‘to be’.

Grammar. A neuter verb. Obsolete.

(See quot.) Obsolete.

Grammar. A verb derived from a noun. Cf. denominal, adj. n. Obsolete.

= quiescent verb n. at compounds. Obsolete. rare.

Linguistics. A word form created by reduplication (reduplication, n. 2a, 2b).

a verb which regularly takes the dative case.

A factitive verb, form, construction, case, etc.

A verb of which the tense used as the present was originally a preterite, esp. one of a small group of verbs in the Germanic languages (mostly…

Specific uses. Grammar, as compound sentence (see sentence, n. 6a); compound verb (see quot. 1925). Cf. quot. 1859 at sense 2b for sense 1a.

With plural agreement. Preterite-present verbs.

= preterite-present, n.

a verb which expresses action, esp. as opposed to a linking verb, modal verb, etc.

A word, such as an infinitive, gerund, or participle, which has some characteristics of a verb but cannot form the head of a predicate on its own…

Grammar and Linguistics. A derived form of a verb in which the meaning of the root form is reversed or inverted.

Grammar & Linguistics. An eventive expression; a form that is used to denote an event or action as opposed to a state or condition.

Grammar. A hypothetical clause; a word or phrase which expresses conjecture: see additions a. Chiefly in plural.

A non-factive verb or verbal construction.

A common noun, verb, or adjective which is derived from a proper name. rare.

A contrafactive verb or predicate.