SUPINE
\sˈuːpa͡ɪn], \sˈuːpaɪn], \s_ˈuː_p_aɪ_n]\
Definitions of SUPINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
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A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.
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Supineness.
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Supineness.
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Supinely.
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Lying on the back: leaning backward: negligent: indolent.
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Supin name given to the verbal form in um and u (so called perh. because though furnished with case endings, it rests or falls back on the verb).
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By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Lying on the back or with the face upward; leaning backward; sloping; negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless.
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A modification of the Latin verb ending in um or u.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In L. gram., a case of the infinitive mood ending in um and u-probably so called because, though having substantive-case endings, it throws itself back, as it were, on the verb; a verbal noun.
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Lying on the back, or with face upwards; careless; thoughtless; negligent; inattentive; indolent.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] A verbal noun or a substantival modification of the infinitive mood in Latin, of which there are two, the first ending in um of the accusative case, which has an active signification, and the second ending in u of the ablative case, which has a passive signification.
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