Pedants' Paradise

[jean]

But probably only if you were using the Reformed Classical pronunciation

[mercia]

....... after the Prime Minister's statement on energy prices, the energy minister's words were "more caveated" [i.e. more cautious]

just re-listened to this

the correspondent says "the energy minister ............. didn't directly contradict the Prime Minister, his language was softer, more caveated".

having googled the word I find that it seems to be quite commonly used

EDIT - for the 10pm news the word was changed to "nuanced"

[gurnemanz]

We can't really complain, if we've been using a third person singular as a noun all this time, that it finally seeks to return to its verbal origins.

A bit like exit...

or "exeat" (let him leave) which is the same subjunctive verb form as caveat and which has also become a noun in English, meaning a leave of absence. I suppose someone given such permission could be said to have been "exeated".

[french frank]

Well, there's a turn up! OED agrees caveat can be a transitive verb: 'To enter a caveat or caution against'; or 'To serve with a caveat':

1667 Naphtali 196, I would caveat this.
1707 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) II. 347 Charged or Caveated the Mr. of the Rolls that he should make out no Exemplification or Coppy thereof.

It's tagged 'Obsolete' ....

[mangerton]

or "exeat" (let him leave) which is the same subjunctive verb form as caveat and which has also become a noun in English, meaning a leave of absence. I suppose someone given such permission could be said to have been "exeated".

Yes. We used to have half-term exeats at school. Similar also is "fiat", now an English legal term meaning a command or decree. The Latin means "let it be (done)". Hence "fiat lux", let there be light.

(NB it's not the Italian for car wash.)

[Pabmusic]

Yes. We used to have half-term exeats at school. Similar also is "fiat", now an English legal term meaning a command or decree. The Latin means "let it be (done)". Hence "fiat lux", let there be light.

(NB it's not the Italian for car wash.)

We had exeats, too, at school. I'd quite forgotten.

[gurnemanz]

Floreat Etona

[vinteuil]

... caveats, exeats, floreats - my pertickler fave, gleaned from childhood perusal of 1066 & All That , is aegrotat. It was the university degree I always hoped for - sadly I had to make do with something much more hum-drum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_classification

[jean]

But despite the similarity of ending, aegrotat is just an just ordinary indicative - you either were really sick, or you managed to persuade them that you were.

[vinteuil]

But despite the similarity of ending, aegrotat is just an just ordinary indicative - .

... ahem, some of us know our indicatives and subjunctives :ruffled emoticon: . .

[mangerton]

... ahem, some of us know our indicatives and subjunctives :ruffled emoticon: .

Quite. One might say it's imperative to understand the difference.

[french frank]

And for a passive subjunctive, English'd as a noun: imprimatur (1641 Milton Animadversions 8 'Your proud Imprimaturs not to be obtain'd ...')

[vinteuil]

And for a passive subjunctive, English'd as a noun: imprimatur (1641 Milton Animadversions 8 'Your proud Imprimaturs not to be obtain'd ...')

... I'd certainly give my nihil obstat to that!

[gurnemanz]

And for a passive subjunctive, English'd as a noun: imprimatur (1641 Milton Animadversions 8 'Your proud Imprimaturs not to be obtain'd ...')

That's a bit of a non sequitur.

[jean]

And for a passive subjunctive, English'd as a noun: imprimatur (1641 Milton Animadversions 8 'Your proud Imprimaturs not to be obtain'd ...')

I wondered if that one had taken the final step of been re-verbed - apparently it has:

The articles below were taken entirely from the Imprimatured book, "THE SINCERE CHRISTIAN" by the Rt. Rev. Archbishop George Hay which was first published in 1787.