Definition of Periphrastic

1. Adjective. Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy. "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."


Definition of Periphrastic

1. a. Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.

Definition of Periphrastic

1. Adjective. Expressed in more words than are necessary. ¹

2. Adjective. Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory. ¹

3. Adjective. (grammar) Characterized by periphrase or circumlocution. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Periphrastic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Periphrastic

peripherally
peripherally inserted central catheter
peripherals
peripheries
peripherin
peripherocentral
periphery
periphlebitic
periphlebitis
periphrase
periphrased
periphrases
periphrasic
periphrasing
periphrasis
periphrastic (current term)
periphrastic conjugation
periphrastic conjugations
periphrastical
periphrastically
periphytic
periphyton
periphytons
periplan eyepiece
periplanar
periplaneta
periplasm
periplasmic
periplasmic binding proteins
periplasmic protein disulfide oxidoreductase

Literary usage of Periphrastic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1903)
"THE periphrastic CONJUGATIONS , 193. A periphrastic form, as the name indicates, is a " roundabout way of speaking." In the widest sense, all verb-phrases ..."

2. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1880)
"The ACTIVE periphrastic CONJUGATION, formed by combining the Future Active Participle ... The periphrastic Conjugation, in the widest sense of the term, ..."

3. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1896)
"ONE periphrastic formation, the periphrastic future, has been already described (942 ff.), since it has become in the later language a recognized part of ..."

4. First Year Latin by William Coe Collar, Moses Grant Daniell (1901)
"The first or active periphrastic conjugation is the future active ... The second or passive periphrastic conjugation is the gerundive combined with forms of ..."

5. First Year Latin by William Coe Collar, Moses Grant Daniell (1901)
"The first or active periphrastic conjugation is the future active ... The second or passive periphrastic conjugation is the gerundive combined with forms of ..."

6. High School Course in Latin Composition by Charles McCoy Baker, Alexander James Inglis (1909)
"When this gerundive is combined with the verb sum^ we get the passive periphrastic conjugation, which is variously translated. ..."

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