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

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INFINITIVE , a See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the verb, properly a noun with verbal functions, but usually taken as a See also:

MOOD

mood (see See also:

GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

GRAMMAR) . The Latin grammarians gave it the name of infinitus or infinitivus modus, i.e. indefinite, unlimited mood, as not having definite persons or See also:

numbers .

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