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[imparfit] (c.1360-79)
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[imparfit] (c.1360-79)

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inparfait,  inparfit  
  FEW:  imperfectus 4,586a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  imparfait 9,785b TL: ∅ DEAF:  imparfait I116 DMF:  imparfait  TLF:  imparfait 1  / imparfait 2  OED:  imperfect adj.  MED:  imparfit adj.  DMLBS:  imperfectus 1247c

a.

1imperfect, incorrect: 
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  C’est grant vergoigne a ta science Si ton acompte est inparfit  19092
♦imperfect, lacking: 
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Seint Augustin [...] Dist que priere des criours Ové cuer muet est inparfait, Qant bouche et cuer sont descordours  10413
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Du charité q’est inparfit, ‘Tout est nostre’, ly moignes dist (and he gives the chaff to the poor, and keeps the corn for himself)  20965
2gramm.imperfect (tense): 
( c.1400; MS: s.xv1 )  il y a huyt temps et chescun de eulx n’est qu’un seul mot decliné, c’est a sçavoir: le present, le pretert inparfait, le pretert parfait, le future de l’indicatif et toutz lez trois temps de l’optatif et le present de l’infinitif  137

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See also:

imperfectiun  parfit 
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