46 Verbs to Use for the Word auxiliaries

This tense prefixes the auxiliary have to the perfect participle; and, like the infinitive present, is usually preceded by the preposition to: thus, To have loved.

The proposal was immediately complied with, and the institution proved a valuable auxiliary to the edification of the members. 8 mo.

When Emperor Maximilian, in the Netherlands, heard of so many battles lost, he came and reproached his generals, and said to the princes of the German empire: "Send to me auxiliaries against the Swiss, so bold as to have attacked the empire.

Others estimate the auxiliaries at 1500, and the average of members at 100.

That you may remember these auxiliaries and avoid giving them new opportunities of betraying your rights, we annex a list of their dishonored names.

Then he posted his auxiliaries before the line of Carthaginians, in order that men who were made up of the refuse of all nations, and who were not bound by honor but by gain, might not have any retreat open to them in case they fled; at the same time that the first ardor and impetuosity might be exhausted upon them, and, if they could render no other service, that the weapons of the enemy might be blunted in wounding them.

"Even the Greek and Latin passive verbs require an auxiliary to conjugate some of their tenses.

110. Is need ever an auxiliary?

What next? Why, next, the farmers of the region round about "First pitied, then embraced" this new and powerful auxiliary to agricultural industry, after having watched its working and its worth.

"The deponent verbs in Latin also employ auxiliaries to form several of their tenses.

The king, after taking in vain this humiliating step, was obliged to have recourse to arms, and to enlist such auxiliaries as are the usual resource of tyrants, and have seldom been employed by so wise and just a monarch.

Going and returning from the South he was active in establishing auxiliaries of the American Colonization Society.

Thirty thousand horses had perished in a single night, and the events which succeeded had almost entirely exhausted this indispensable auxiliary in the tactics of war.

This author everywhere exhibits the auxiliaries, mayst, mightst, couldst, wouldst, and shouldst, as words of one syllable; and also observes, in a marginal note, "Some writers begin to say, 'Thou may, thou might,' &c."Ib., p. 36.

LXXVII.But those who were blockaded at Alesia, the day being past on which they had expected auxiliaries from their countrymen, and all their corn being consumed, ignorant of what was going on among the Aedui, convened an assembly and deliberated on the exigency of their situation.

In the performance of the duties of conviviality, over which the learned sergeant, as head of the circuit, presided, he found in Fielding a powerful auxiliary.

The community had learned to manage its affairs without its assistance, and trade had already found new auxiliaries, so that on the 1st of October last the extraordinary spectacle was presented of a national bank more than one-half of whose capital was either lying unproductive in its vaults or in the hands of foreign bankers.

For a very long period the schools in connection with St. Mary's have formed an excellent auxiliary of the church.

Beyond thus furnishing auxiliaries to our other Indian foes, they had little to do with our history.

They escorted him on his setting out, and begged to be excused from attendance in order to gather auxiliaries (as they said), after which they would quickly come to his assistance.

The latter followed, after having passed up his own and his companion's arms; neither being disposed to stir without having these important auxiliaries at command.

Hasdrubal formed his centre strong with Spaniards, and placed the Carthaginians in the right wing, the Africans and hired auxiliaries in the left.

There was a greater disposition to war, and more danger to be apprehended among themselves; for the deserters, thinking that they were delivered up to the Romans, induced the mercenary auxiliaries to entertain the same apprehension; and hastily seizing their arms, they first put the praetors to death, and then ran through the city to massacre the Syracusans.

In consequence of this information he sent forward the cavalry, which was always employed to protect the foragers, and joined with them some light-armed auxiliaries, while he himself, with a greater number of legions, followed them as closely as possible.

I am thoroughly convinced that family worship, and congregational worship lose a great auxiliary to piety, when there is not the power or the inclination to join in psalmody.

46 Verbs to Use for the Word  auxiliaries