Citations:paulo post futurum

English citations of paulo post futurum

1. a grammatical tense
   • 1834: Nathaniel Fish Moore, Lectures on the Ancient Greek Language and Literature, p122

     So likewise the paulo-post-futurum, τετύψομας, is, in fact, the future passive of the verb τετύπω. [¶] Thus all those five tenses, the two futures passive, the two middle, and the paulo-post-futurum, are reduced to one and the same tense — the future passive — and follow the same rule in their formation; but are to be referred to different kindred verbs. [¶] And, as the second futures active and passive, with the two futures middle, and the paulo-post-futurum have no existence as separate tenses, unless in the imagination of grammarians: such is the case also with the second aorists active and middle; which are, in fact, imperfect tenses; the former of the active, the latter of the passive voice.

2. eventually; sometime in the distant future, or possibly never.
   • 1785–1859: Thomas de Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, pUNKNOWN

     When a murder is in the paulo-post-futurum tense — not done, not even (according to modern purism) being done, but only going to be done — and a rumour of it comes to our ears, by all means let us treat it morally.

   • 1879: Benjamin Silliman, American journal of science : v. 1–550 [July 1818]–1845; v. [51]–100 (2 ^d ser., v. 1–50) 1846 –70; v. 101–150 (3 ^d ser., v. 1–50) 1871–95; v. 151–200; v. 201– (4 ^th ser., v. 1–50 ) 1896 –1927, (5 ^th ser., v. 1– ) 1928, p342

     A new invention of a really practical character, not a mere “paulo post futurum” invention like many we have heard of lately, has just been made by Mr. E. A. Cowper, the well-known mechanical engineer.

   • 1914: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, p334

     —Goggins, you’re the flamingest dirty devil I ever met, do you know.
     

     —I had it on my mind to say that, Goggins answered firmly. It did no one any harm, did it?
     

     —We hope, Dixon said suavely, that it was not of the kind known to science as a PAULO POST FUTURUM.
     

     —Didn’t I tell you he was a smiler? said Temple, turning right and left. Didn’t I give him that name?
     

     —You did. We’re not deaf, said the tall consumptive.

   • 2006: Luke O’Sullivan & Catherine Fuller, The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham — Volume 12: July 1824 to June 1828, p460 (date of original use: 28/xii/1827–16/ii/1828)

     Constitutional Code³⁰ — the completion of it still in the paulo-post-futurum: but considerable advance made in it since we parted, and the ground of Penal Code, Civil Code, and Procedure gone over.