past-participial

See also: past participial

English

Adjective

past-participial (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of past participial.
   • 1952 January 26, P.A.B., “Book Review”, in Percy B[ott] Ruhe, editor, The Morning Call, volume 124, number 22, Allentown, Pa.: Call-Chronicle Newspapers, Inc., →ISSN, page 6, column 6:

     The book would have taken on added value if the compiler had pointed out the prevailing dialect difference of the York County area, […] especially the peculiar behavior of the past-participial “ge,” for ex., its contraction as in “gwesche,” “gwockse,” or its disappearance as in “Mier hen schpielt,” or its change before “s” as in “Er hot zawt (g’saat), “Er iss zuffe (g’soffe).

   • 1984 January 8, Richard Abbott, “A look at the dangling condition of our language—or whatever”, in Times-Colonist, 126th year, number 22, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, page C-12:

     A letter on the editorial page of Le Devoir several years ago spelled it as enfirouappe, a past-participial adjective meaning hidden, perhaps in such a way as to camouflage or deceive.

   • 2009 November 9, Rob Kyff, “Word Watch: Aaargh! See If You ‘R’ Right With This Test”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXIII, number 313, Hartford, Conn., →ISSN, page B5, column 2:

     “Wrapt” is an obsolete past-tense and past-participial form of “wrap.”