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Definition
essential and urgent
or more rarely: (in grammar) a sentence that expresses a command or request
or more rarely: (in grammar) a sentence that expresses a command or request
- Although the example of Homer has since rendered some such formal enumeration of the forces engaged, a common practice in epic poems descriptive of great warlike adventures, still so minute a statistical detail can neither be considered as imperatively required, nor perhaps such as would, in ordinary cases, suggest itself to the mind of a poet.Footnotes (35% in)
There are no more uses of "imperative" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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