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This was supplied, in the common periphrastic manner, by the help of the preposition and the article.
THE VERBALISTTHOMAS EMBLY OSMUN, (AKA ALFRED AYRES)When the present is found not to be distinctive enough, periphrastic forms come in.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 14, SLICE 4VARIOUSThis tendency, together with periphrastic instead of verbal conjugation, continued to the end.
MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTLEWIS SPENCEIn conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
THE COMING RACEEDWARD BULWER LYTTONAs poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.
AN ESSAY TOWARD A HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE IN NORWAYMARTIN BROWN RUUDUsing these as auxiliaries the finite verb makes a whole series of periphrastic tenses.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 12, SLICE 6VARIOUSPeriphrastic epithets are part of the original and common stock of the Teutonic poetry.
EPIC AND ROMANCEW. P. KERThe periphrastic tenses are formed on the same principles as in Mth.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 3, SLICE 7VARIOUSHe might be described as the last of the periphrastic humorists.
OLD AND NEW MASTERSROBERT LYNDCoptic presents a remarkable contrast to Egyptian in the precision of its periphrastic conjugation.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 9, SLICE 1VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO PERIPHRASTIC
- ambiguous
- ancillary
- circuitous
- circular
- circumlocutory
- collateral
- complicated
- contingent
- crooked
- devious
- discursive
- duplicitous
- erratic
- eventual
- implied
- incidental
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- meandering
- oblique
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- periphrastic
- rambling
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- tortuous
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- wandering
- winding
- zigzag
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