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Definition of Non-finite
1. Adjective. Of verbs; having neither person nor number nor mood (as a participle or gerund or infinitive). "Infinite verb form"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Non-finite
Literary usage of Non-finite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"non-finite verb forms; their syntactic use is stated in 11.4.1. In the positive
there are three non-finite forms, which are labeled 'present', ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1870)
"The Infinite, therefore, we will take for the nonce to be merely the non-Finite,
the non-existent, the indeterminate void. The Finite is the Here and Now, ..."
3. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"However, if a non-finite set of non-overlapping intervals be taken in (a, b), it
is not in general true that the sum of the integrals of f(x) through these ..."
4. Grammar and Composition: For Common Schools by Eliphalet Oram Lyte (1886)
"A non-finite Verb is a verb that is not limited to a certain form by the person
... (J) non-finite verbs are generally used as the predicates of abridged ..."
5. Dualism and Monism, and Other Essays by John Veitch (1895)
"The finite is opposed to the non- finite, and the relative to the wow-relative.
It is possible that the non-finite and the non-relative as thus thought may ..."
6. Advanced Grammar and Composition by Eliphalet Oram Lyte (1899)
"A non-finite verb is a verb that is not limited to a certain form by the person and
... non-finite verbs are generally used as the predicates of abridged ..."
7. Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological by Simon Somerville Laurie (1906)
"The finite is the negation of the non-finite. Our difficulties, accordingly, seem
to increase ; for we have before us in the given of presentation a ..."
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