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Authors names: Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882 (2)

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Synonyms: alter; castrate; neuter; sexless; spay; verb

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  1.  Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. / Balch, William Stevens, 1806-1887
    .--Laws.--Man.--Animals.--Vegetables.--Minerals.--Neutrality degrading.--Nobody can explain a neuter verb.--_One_ kind of verbs.--_You_ must decide.--Importance of teaching children the truth.--Active verbs.--Transitive verbs false.--Samples.--Neuter verbs examined ...  details...
  2.  English Grammar in Familiar Lectures / Kirkham, Samuel
    , and neuter nominatives Conjunctions Conjugation of regular verbs Derivation (all the philosophical notes ... , passive, and neuter. They are also divided into regular, irregular, and defective. The term _verb  details...
  3.  Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. / Smith, Buckingham
    in �htze, �itze, or in guatze. 30. To form _Compound Neuter Verbs_, the verb d�an, I go, is frequently ... , the future, d�tze. 31. _Other Neuters_ are formed of active verbs ending in an by changing it into en  details...
  4.  Two Years Before The Mast / Dana, Richard Henry
    instead of "go;" as, "Lay forward!" "Lay aft!" "Lay aloft!" etc., I do not understand to be the neuter verb lie, mispronounced, but to be the active verb lay, with the objective case understood; as, "Lay ...  details...
  5.  Prose quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: with indexes. Authors, 544; subjects, 571; quotations, 8810. / Allibone, Samuel Austin, 1816-1889
    who have done hardly anything else but live; what may be called the neuter verbs not active or passive ... or passive verb, or, still more, both combined, though he may be said to have lived long in everything  details...
  6.  Two Years Before the Mast / Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882
    "; as "Lay forward!" "Lay aft!" "Lay aloft!" etc., I do not understand to be the neuter verb, lie, mispronounced, but to be the active verb lay, with the objective case understood; as "Lay yourselves forwards ...  details...
  7.  Two Years Before the Mast / Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882
    to be the neuter verb lie, mispronounced, but to be the active verb lay, with the objective case understood; as, ``Lay yourselves forward!'' ``Lay yourselves aft!'' &c. At all events, lay is an active verb at sea ...  details...
  8.  Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems / Society for Pure English
    the grass: whereas they only make it crunchable. _maligns_ (54) used as a neuter verb without precedent ... used it as a verb and said that he had been _ennuied_. Why not therefore frankly and boldly pronounce  details...
  9.  Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words / Summerfield, John
    are of three kinds, active, passive, and neuter. A Verb Active expresses an action, and necessarily implies ... , ten parts of Speech, namely, the _article_, the _noun_, the _pronoun_, the _adjective_, the _verb  details...