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INFINITIVE

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 552 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INFINITIVE  , a

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form of the verb, properly a noun with verbal functions, but usually taken as a
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mood (see
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GRAMMAR) . The Latin grammarians gave it the name of infinitus or infinitivus modus, i.e. indefinite, unlimited mood, as not having definite persons or
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numbers .

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