Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of inflecting words.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) The art of declining and conjugating words.
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- noun Plural form of
enclitic .
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Examples
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Mr. Browning, but pray defer to Herr Buttmann, whose fifth list of 'enclitics' ends with the inseparable De, '-- or to Curtius, whose fifth list ends also with De (meaning
Dramatic Romances Robert Browning 1850
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The ending -lor is an encliticized form of Latin illorum, making Romanian a language that declines its enclitics too.
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If one is not prepared I believe that Etruscan enclitics can severely damage the would-be paleoglot's brain.
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Swedish demonstrative enclitics then were more appropriate to the discussion of Etruscan's demonstrative enclitics, not English's "genitive pseudoenclitic".
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I need a stronger parallel, something with declined demonstrative enclitics.
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The Queen of England's language also seems to permit enclitics on entire noun phrases.
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However, I'm not even sure that Swedes use definite enclitics in this complex way either.
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I looked towards Swedish and its demonstrative enclitics.
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You're saying that screwy phrases with complex combinations of declension and postposed enclitics like tleche Hanipalus-cle or hetrn acl-tn exist somehow in English?
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It is observed too often, that men of wit do so much employ their thoughts upon fine speculations, that things useful to mankind are wholly neglected; and they are busy in making emendations upon some enclitics in a Greek author, while obvious things, that every man may have use for, are wholly overlooked.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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