2. Adjective. (grammar) Having a future tense ¹
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Definition of Futural
1. future [adj] - See also: future
Lexicographical Neighbors of Futural
Literary usage of Futural
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1902)
"Japanese futural AY'ey, by AH Lay, in Vol. XIX. Part III. of the "Asiatic
Transactions. ... futural ..."
2. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"The post-Homeric vanishing of the futural subjunctive in the leading clause Stahl
attributes to the competition of the future indicative, which rendered the ..."
3. Missionary Review of the World by James Lutzweiler (1901)
"There are six modes and seven principal tenses, a present futural, ... In narration,
after the first verb, the present futural tense is generally used for ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1904)
"In this stage of Greek, as in our own language, we may define the futural present
as differing from the future tense mainly in the tone of assurance which ..."
5. A Grammar of New Testament Greek by James Hope Moulton (1906)
"In this stage of Greek, as in our own language, we may define the futural present
as differing from the future tense mainly in the tone of assurance which ..."
6. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"267: "I should say that the real competitor <of the 'futural' subjunctive> d is
the optative with Hv • • . 6. Alcamenes, the statue of Agias, ..."
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