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 OF VERBS.|117 which the following roots in admit, are those mentioned in the two first rules for this conjugation (357 & 358.) ...to reckon, to think. ...to attend. ..to share, to divide. ...to lurk, to lie in wait secretly. ...to surpass, to go beyond. ...to harass, to torment. ...to scrape, to scratch. to take, to receive. to imagine, to think. to rob. to perform a ceremony in which a string is consecrated to a particular deity, and then tied round the arm or wrist ; it is generally performed by females. ...to weigh. ...to rub. ......to owe. ...to move a piece, as in a game of chess, 6cc. ...to love, to desire. ...to claw. ....to string (pearls, &c.} ...to dig. ...to churn' ...to trust, to confide. ...to send, to command, to rot. ...to prefer, to approve. ...to break in pieces. ...to say ...to increase.

All other roots in have the infinitive optionally either in  or in, and, when followed by  to form the present verbal participle, by  to form certain parts of the affirmative aorist, or by the terminations for the affirmative imperative, they may, at pleasure, convert  into ; thus, , to bless,  makes in the infinitive  or , in the present verbal participle or in the aorist, and in the imperative.

The verbs of the class last mentioned being more numerous than any others, in &, one of them has been selected as an example of this conjugation.

Root Present verbal participle common. common.

... blessing.

Past ............ ...do ......... ....... having blessed Infinite ............................. blessing. to bless.