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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Hosanna--a verb! #62353 03/25/2002 2:40 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... In looking up the various meanings of hosanna, I was very surprised to find in one reference that hosanna can be used as a transitive verb. Has anyone ever heard hosanna used this way? Or perhaps read passage in which hosanna was used as a transitive verb? Best regards, Wordwondering PS: My AHD does not include the transitive verb use--I just checked. My source for the transitive verb inclusion was Wordsmyth online. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hosanna--a verb! #62354 03/25/2002 2:52 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass the verb sense is rather archaic, and strained to my ear: 1697 C. LESLIE Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 46 This James Naylor suffer'd himself to be Hosanna'd into Bristol, as Christ was into Jerusalem. 1775 P. OLIVER in T. Hutchinson's Diary 31 Oct. (1886) II. 110 They Hosanna'd a man who was known to be infamous in all vices. 1851 H. ANGUS Serm. (1861) 143 The act of him who has been much hosannaed as if he were a Saviour. "...theatrical economics being what they are and are not, anything that places posteriors in the seats and money in the coffers and keeps the enterprise afloat should be hallelujah'd and hosanna'd. So, hallelujah and hosanna." - Michael Bettencourt Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hosanna--quote without comment #62355 03/25/2002 2:53 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/930929_Hosanna.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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