Or impactious, impactive, impactory, impactile, impactoid, and impactworthy.Flyingcursor wrote:The observations on this thread could be impactful.
I've taken to verbing "cittern". It's easier that way.
Or impactious, impactive, impactory, impactile, impactoid, and impactworthy.Flyingcursor wrote:The observations on this thread could be impactful.
Well, to be honest, quoting dates doesn't really tell us anything about how the word has come to be perceived in modern usage. I don't think I've heard the transitive form used much, myself.Nanohedron wrote:My goodness. I honestly never heard the the transitive usage in my day until but some twentyish years ago, and it was decried by many's the anal-retentive Anglophone who bothered to hold it up as an example of The Decay of English. So much for scholarship.Darwin wrote:Well, good old Webster's Ninth gives a date of 1601 for the transitive use of the verb, with one entry being:
2 a: to have an impact on : to impinge on
On the other hand, the use of "impacted" to refer to teeth only goes back to 1831. (I've been neglecting my little Webster's, not realizing until now that it incuded earliest use dates.)
This must have been one of those full-circle things.