"Past participle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and tenses correspond exactly to those of the French, and the famous rule of the past participle is identical with the one that prevails in the ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... a past participle in English and French. This knowledge of a past participle in French ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... feasts of the Bacabs Acantun are described in Landa's work. The name he does not explain. I take it to be acaan, past participle of actal, to erect, and tun, stone. But it may have another meaning. The word acan meant wine, or rather, mead, the intoxicating hydromel the natives manufactured. The god of this drink also bore the name Acan ("ACAN; el Dios del vino que es Baco," Diccionario del Convento de ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
... and Motley go together, though all three of them may be local (the mid-lea, the middle-cot, and the moat-lea). Medley mixed, is the Anglo-French past participle of Old Fr. mesler (meler). Motley is of unknown origin, but it was ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley |
