Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word, mood, or form used to express command.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar, expressing command.
- noun In grammar, a form or construction expressing command.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Grammar) Indicating or expressive of a mild command.
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- adjective grammar, of a verb Inflected to indicate commands, permission or agreement with a request.
- noun grammar The jussive
mood , a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although _uiderit_ in these passages clearly has a jussive sense, it is probably future perfect in origin, since _uidero_ 'I shall look after' is quite frequent in Terence and Cicero: see Martin on Ter _Ad_ 437 'de istoc ipse uiderit' and _OLD uideo_ 18b.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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But the jussive _petatur_ could be continuing from _ite_ in the first line; compare Statius _Sil_ IV iv 4-5 'atque ubi Romuleas uelox penetraueris arces,/continuo dextras flaui _pete_ Thybridis oras'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Note the enclitic na ', intensifying or adding vividness to a jussive in v. 7 and to a hortative in v. 8 (K.S. 355 b),.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Similarly, Japheth is in the blessing by an equally apt paronomasia, associated with the analogous root pathah, "be open"; Hifil imperfect jussive yapht, "cause to be open" -- "grant ample territory."
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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The verb used (yirdu) is a jussive (K.S. 364h) and actually establishes as a divine word the situation it outlines.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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The jussive ya'aseh is without the usual apocopation ya'as.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Tadshe 'is, of course, a jussive or a yakteel elevatum (K.S. 189), and deshe' and zera 'are cognate objects.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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The jussive (tehi) is followed by the cohortative nikhrethah (K.S. 364 g).
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Of the use of the jussive future in prohibition we have a conspicuous example in the Ten Commandments (Ex. 20: 13-17: Dt. 5: 17-21) - Ou moicheuseis, Ou klepseis ktl.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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In the N.T. the jussive future is often used in passages quoted from the LXX.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
avivamagnolia commented on the word jussive
~issuing a command, expressing a command
January 18, 2009