gerund

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Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their teacher, asked his favorite question, "Gerund or gerundive?"

From Time Magazine Archive

His history of Friar Gerund, which slightly resembles Don Quixote, aimed a blow at bombastic oratory, causing it soon to die out.

From The Interdependence of Literature by Curtis, Georgina Pell

These volumes were consequently forbidden, but a publisher at Bayonne reprinted them with a third volume composed of the different essays which had appeared in Spain, either for or against the history of Fray Gerund.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio

The Accusative of the Gerund is used only with Prepositions, chiefly ad and in to denote purpose; as,— homō ad agendum nātus est, man is born for action.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

Instead of the Genitive or Ablative of the Gerund with a Direct Object, another construction may be, and very often is, used.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)