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Can :: Can (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to..

Have :: Have (v. t.) To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.

Purport :: Purport (n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.

Done :: Done (infinitive.) It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.

Y- :: Y- () A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use..

Glad :: Glad (superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason..

Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail..

Infinitive :: Infinitive (adv.) In the manner of an infinitive mood.

Certain :: Certain (a.) Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.

Supinity :: Supine (n.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine..

Unable :: Unable (a.) Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue..

Give :: Give (n.) To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc..

Delight :: Delight (v. i.) To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in..

Offer :: Offer (v. t.) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me..

Ready :: Ready (superl.) On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive.

Infinitive :: Infinitive (n.) An infinitive form of the verb; a verb in the infinitive mood; the infinitive mood.

Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive.

Deign :: Deign (v. i.) To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.

Hate :: Hate (n.) To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted..

Gin :: Gin (v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan..

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