CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HOCUS-POCUSSED
PRESENT
Present
I hocus-pocussed
you hocus-pocussed
he/she/it hocus-pocusseds
we hocus-pocussed
you hocus-pocussed
they hocus-pocussed
Present continuous
I am hocus-pocusseding
you are hocus-pocusseding
he/she/it is hocus-pocusseding
we are hocus-pocusseding
you are hocus-pocusseding
they are hocus-pocusseding
Present perfect
I have hocus-pocusseded
you have hocus-pocusseded
he/she/it has hocus-pocusseded
we have hocus-pocusseded
you have hocus-pocusseded
they have hocus-pocusseded
Present perfect continuous
I have been hocus-pocusseding
you have been hocus-pocusseding
he/she/it has been hocus-pocusseding
we have been hocus-pocusseding
you have been hocus-pocusseding
they have been hocus-pocusseding
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I hocus-pocusseded
you hocus-pocusseded
he/she/it hocus-pocusseded
we hocus-pocusseded
you hocus-pocusseded
they hocus-pocusseded
Past continuous
I was hocus-pocusseding
you were hocus-pocusseding
he/she/it was hocus-pocusseding
we were hocus-pocusseding
you were hocus-pocusseding
they were hocus-pocusseding
Past perfect
I had hocus-pocusseded
you had hocus-pocusseded
he/she/it had hocus-pocusseded
we had hocus-pocusseded
you had hocus-pocusseded
they had hocus-pocusseded
Past perfect continuous
I had been hocus-pocusseding
you had been hocus-pocusseding
he/she/it had been hocus-pocusseding
we had been hocus-pocusseding
you had been hocus-pocusseding
they had been hocus-pocusseding
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will hocus-pocussed
you will hocus-pocussed
he/she/it will hocus-pocussed
we will hocus-pocussed
you will hocus-pocussed
they will hocus-pocussed
Future continuous
I will be hocus-pocusseding
you will be hocus-pocusseding
he/she/it will be hocus-pocusseding
we will be hocus-pocusseding
you will be hocus-pocusseding
they will be hocus-pocusseding
Future perfect
I will have hocus-pocusseded
you will have hocus-pocusseded
he/she/it will have hocus-pocusseded
we will have hocus-pocusseded
you will have hocus-pocusseded
they will have hocus-pocusseded
Future perfect continuous
I will have been hocus-pocusseding
you will have been hocus-pocusseding
he/she/it will have been hocus-pocusseding
we will have been hocus-pocusseding
you will have been hocus-pocusseding
they will have been hocus-pocusseding
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would hocus-pocussed
you would hocus-pocussed
he/she/it would hocus-pocussed
we would hocus-pocussed
you would hocus-pocussed
they would hocus-pocussed
Conditional continuous
I would be hocus-pocusseding
you would be hocus-pocusseding
he/she/it would be hocus-pocusseding
we would be hocus-pocusseding
you would be hocus-pocusseding
they would be hocus-pocusseding
Conditional perfect
I would have hocus-pocussed
you would have hocus-pocussed
he/she/it would have hocus-pocussed
we would have hocus-pocussed
you would have hocus-pocussed
they would have hocus-pocussed
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been hocus-pocusseding
you would have been hocus-pocusseding
he/she/it would have been hocus-pocusseding
we would have been hocus-pocusseding
you would have been hocus-pocusseding
they would have been hocus-pocusseding
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you hocus-pocussed
we let´s hocus-pocussed
you hocus-pocussed
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to hocus-pocussed
Past participle
hocus-pocusseded
Present Participle
hocus-pocusseding
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOCUS-POCUSSED»
Discover the use of
hocus-pocussed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hocus-pocussed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Modern Dilemma: Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Humanism
(121) ... the apprehension of an object known to be imaginary does not differ
essentially from the apprehension of any other object, unless we have hocus-
pocussed an external reality to which ideas are to “conform.” (123) The latter
remark, ...
2
Thomas Hardy, Monism and the Carnival Tradition: The One and ...
Leaning towards atheism, Huxley scorns Spencer's '"Absolute redidivus, a sort of
ghost of an extinct philosophy, the name of a negation hocus- pocussed into a
sham thing"' (Clodd 246).20 In a mood of turning to the real, the Spirit Ironic also
...
I 'd go to head-quarters and get authority to take it whur I could find it ; but always
by that time 't would be hocus-pocussed out of the way. It was all an understood
thing. Aside from that, the regular armies, neither of them, did n't steal from us.
John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton, 1866
4
The Annual Report . . . of the American and Foreign ...
and the whole instrument, thus hocus-pocussed, is to be presented in a lump to
be voted for, in the hope that, taking the good with the bad, and by another
concerted movement among the pro-slavery men, the amended Constitution may
slip ...
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853
5
In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and ...
... botanical friend of mine and enlarged on my grievance against them as a
horticulturist, to which he replied, “After all, it doesn't so much matter about
horticulture, but the really annoying thing is to have botany hocus-pocussed in
this fashion.
6
From Physics to Metaphysics: Philosophy and Allegory in the ...
The apprehension of an object known to be imaginary does not differ essentially
from the apprehension of any other object, unless we have hocus- pocussed an
external reality to which ideas are to 'conform.'"46 Eliot reverses the existential ...
7
The Noble Stock-jobber, Or Facts Unveiled: Irrefutably to ...
Would not every one of the servants at the different inns - between Dover and
London have remembered the shifting of this bill case, if hocus-pocussed it ever
had been into a portmanteau? — Not a syllable, however, is said of it anywhere.
Charles Random de Bérenger Beaufain (baron de.), 1816
when this Jew-book will be considered in its true light : id est, a bundle of filthy
odds and ends, scraped together at different times by an artful gang of impostors,
hocus pocussed up for divine, and held out to gaping idiots as a- sine qua non of
...
9
The Praise of Folly: A Rhymed English Verse Version of the ...
They love to make a man a snake, a tree, a bird, or locust, as if it were that he'd
prefer to be so hocus-pocussed. Now, as to my conversions, I don't look for forms
to part with. My men, in fact, return intact to who they were to start with. So if a ...
10
Real pearls in a false setting
Now the widow must have taken lessons in legerdemain ; for whilst she burnt a
paper packet, she burnt an empty one ; whereas the loaded on< was hocus-
pocussed up her sleeve to the complete deception of Mr. Daniel's double mode
of ...
Henry De la Pasture, 1839
