usitative

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English

Etymology

Latin usitari (to use often).

Adjective

usitative (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Denoting usual or customary action.
    • 1873, Henry Alford, The Greek Testament: With a Critically Revised Text:
      the usitative aorist

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for usitative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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