punctiliar

comparative more punctiliar · superlative most punctiliar

1. Of or pertaining to an unextended point of time:
   1. grammarOccurring at a definite and particular point in time.
   2. grammarRelating to a punctiliar action or event.

plural punctiliars

1. grammarA verb denoting a punctiliar action or activity.

   First two duratives to express our practice of judging and measuring, then two punctiliars (aorists) to state God’s reciprocations.

   1943, Richard C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Matthew’s Gospel 1–14, Augsburg Fortress, published 2008, →ISBN, page 289

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   Many researchers observe similar generalizations: that children seem unwilling to mark activity verbs like walk or unbounded punctiliars like jump with an -ed ending, even though this is a tense marker in the adult language that applies to all types of events.

   1996, University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics: UMD WPL, IV-VI, page 122

   Synonyms: punctual