percontative

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial. not-comparable,rare
    — Some [grammatical writers] call these affections of the verb moods; others call them divisions, qualities, states, species, &c.; and as to the various appellations of each mood we have the personative and impersonative, the indicative, declarative, definitive, modus finiendi, modus fatendi, the rogative, interrogative, requisitive, percontative, assertive, enunciative, vocative, precative, deprecative, responsive, concessive, permissive, promissive, adhortative, optative, dubitative, imperative, mandative, conjunctive, subjunctive, adjunctive, potential, participial, infinitive, and probably many others.

词源

From the Latin percontativus.
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