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VERBALIZING.
1. inir. To use many words ; to talk diffusely ; to
be verbose.
1609 (Bp. W. Barlow] Answ, NameUss Catk. Ded. p. vii,
Verbalize he can, dispute he cannot. 1648 Hexham n. App.,
Vtrhalisercn, to Verbalize, or make a speech. 1731 Bailey,
Verbalise, to be tedious in Discourse, to make many
Words. 1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Mctk. 130 Mr.
Lowell verbalizes as to Duty being an eternal harmony.
2. irons. To make into a verb.
x6s9 O. Walker lustr. Oratory 31 So nouns.. are sometimes
verbalized ; as to complete, to contrary, to experience.
1818 (?. Rn, XIX. 207 To sui)ply the place of the nouns
thus verlwlized Mr. Keats, wirh great fecundity, spawns
new ones, i860 G. P. Marsh L^ct. Eng. Lang, viii, English
no longer exercises.. the protean gift of transformation,
which could at pleasure verbalize a noun.
3. To express in words.
187s Dora Greenwell Liber Humanitatis 42 The man of
the world, whose creed has been thus.. verbalized, 'There's
nothing new, and nothing true, and it's no matter '. x886
GuRNEY, etc. Phantasms ofLiving W.^-i, It is more natural
..to visualise it,.. than to verbalise it in some imagined or
remembered phrase.
Hence VeTbaliaing vbl. sb, and />/>/. a.
x8s4 J. Gilchrist £'/)'W. Interpr. ^ What thatsomething
more or verbalizing property is, he cither could not or would
not inform the world. 1869 W, G. T. Shedd IIomiletics\\.
133 If the formation of the plan is merely a verbalizing
process. 1880 Meredith Tragic Com. iv, (1892) 48 A burst
unnoticed in the incessantly verbalizing buzz of a continental
supper- table.
Verbally (vaubali), adv. [f. Verbal a, + -lt 2.]
1. Word for word ; in respect of each word.
1588 Lambard Eiren. iv. v. 502 It is not of necessitie, that
the Statute be verbally rehearsed, but only that the offence
against the Statute be sufficiently and with full words
described. x68o Dryden Pref. Ovid's Ep. Ess. (Ker) I.
238 Tis almost impossible to translate verbally, and well, at
the same time. 1841 Myers Cath. 7'h. in. § 8. 29 To make
them, .such a record of Divine utterances as to be throughout
verbally and literally true. 1864 Froude Short Stud.
(1867)1. 245 If all three agreed verbally, we should feel certain
it was more than accident. 1883 A. Roberts p. V.
Reinsion \%. 198 They could not but verbally agree in the
reports which they furnished of His addresses.
2. In or with (mere) words, without accompanying
action or reality.
1610 Healey St. Aug. Citle 0/ God 573 This passion of
Christ, the reprobate preach verbal lieonely. 1640 Bp. Hall
Episc, III. §8. 257 Would God I might not say, even the
Lords Anointed, whom they verbally professe to honour.
1678 CuDWORTH Intell. Sysf. 55 Some of the Pagans..,
tliough they Verbally acknowledged a Deity, yet supposed
a certain Fate superiour to it.
b. So far as words (only) are concerned,
1855-6 T. T. Lynch Lett. Scat /ered (1B7 2) 572 It is vain
to be verbally right, if we are not livingly real. 1862
Spencer First Princ. i. ii. §11 (1875) 35_ Thus these three
different suppositions.., verbally intelligible though they
are,. .turn out. .to be literally unthinkable. 1908 W. M.
Ramsay Z-K^tf Physician viii. 251 You can with sufficient
ingenuity always explain—verbally—any thing out of anj*thing.
3. In actual words ; by means of words or speech,
Z646 Tenkvn Remora 12 They said not so verbally, but
mentally and practically. 1650 Bp. Hall Cases Consc.
(ed. 2) Addit 402 Justly supposing, there may be as strong
a prohibition in a sense implyed, as verbally expressed.
0x691 Boyle Hist. Air {i6g2.) 55 Nature.. has furnished
men with sensories capable of distinctly perceiving a far
greater variety of objects, than they are able verbally to
express. 1796 Mme. D'Arblay Camilla II. 395 But, till
then, here he will stay, .till you have deigned to pronounce
verbally his doom. 1840 Dickens OldC, Shop xxxi, She
verbally fell upon and maltreated her.
b. In speech, as contrasted with writinjj.
1637-50 Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 503 Then, after
long reasoning and protesting, ..the King's Commissioner
arose, dischargeing the Assemblie verballie. 1673 Essex
Papers (Camden) I. 70 My humble advice. .is to content
your selfe with what his Ma[jes]ty has verbally been pleased
to declare in this matter. 1761 Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxvi.
2Q2 It was universally said that the Emperor, .would verbally
agree to any terms. 1782 Miss Burney Cecilia vii.
vii, Give me but the commission, either verbally or in writing.
1817 W. Selwyn Law N'isi Pritts {td. 4) II. 793 It
was verbally agreed between plaintiff, defendant, and J. S.
pay the amount. 2864 Lin'coln
in E. McPherson Hist. U. S. RebelL (1864) 336 You a-ik me
to put in writing the .substance of what I verbally said the
other day in your presence. 1878 S. Walpole Hist. Eng.
II. 67s The King was verbally assured., that at least fifty
fresh peerages would be required.
4. With the function of a verb.
1875 Whitney Life Lang. xii. 233 The verbally used
[Scythianl forms are, rather, but one step removed from
nouns used predicatively.
Verba 'Xian, a. and sb. [f. L. verb-nm word,
after forms in -arian.'\ a. adj. Having to do with.
words, b. sb. An inventor or coiner of words.
1830 Coleridge Churchy State (1839) 25 note, A verbarian
that the defendant . .should
Attorney-General, authorized to bring information . . against
the writer or editor of any work . . who . . should persevere in
misusing a word. 1873 F. Hall Mod Eng. 21 In The
Doctor, Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian.
Verbarnd, southern var. pa.t. Fobbubnz'. Obs.
I! Verbascnm (vajbje-skrm). [L. (Pliny),
whence also It, Sp., Pg. verbasco.l A widely distributed
f^ehus of herbaceous plants, = Mullkin ;
one or other species of this.
i56» Turner //«r^a/n. 161 The why te Verbascum is called
commonly in English mollen or hickis taper, and . . longwurt.
1601 Holland Pliny 11. 264 That kind of Verbascum or
Mullen, the flower whereof resembleth gold. 1741 Compt.
120
Fam.'Piece 11. iii. 367 Venetian Vetch, Borrage-Ieav'd Ver.
bascum. 1765 Phil. Trans. LVI. 234 Phlomis, verbascum,
stoechas, sage, thyme, 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 254/1 All
the species of Verbascum are tall, robust, handsome plants,
and may be cultivated in gardens and shrubberies. 1857
Henfhey Boi. § 528 Verbascum, having 5 stamens, is sometimes
referred to Solanaceas.
tVerbate, ^- Obs.~^ [f. L. verb-nm word,
perh. after verbatim.'] trans. To reproduce word
for word.
1512 Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 2, 1 have al
cnely verbated and folowed mine auctour as nighe as I
could with the profoundite of good herte.
t Verba tical, a. Obs.-'^ [Irreg- f. L. verb'Um
word : see -atic and -al.] Verbal.
t6ix T. Wilson Chr. Diet. Pref., His is Axiomaticall, of
simple propositions ; mine is partly Verbaticall and Rematicall,..of
Wordes with their significations [etc.].
Verbatim (vajbtf^'tim), adv,^ a., and sb. [a.
med.L. verbatim^ f. L.
ATIM.]
verb-urn word : of. Liteu-
A. adv. 1. Word for word ; in the exact words
a. With reference to a copy of a document or
passage in a book, or to the report of a speech, etc.
1481 Cov. Leet Bk. 477 Stodealf. .brought like writing as
is before wreton verbatim direct to l^e Maire. ? 1503 in gtk
Ref>. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. 263/2 The said patent.,
which is now verbatim copied in this boke in the xlviii. lef.
1557 Order of Hospiialls F vij. And . . make for him a treue
and iust..Coppie thereof verbatim. 1579 W. Wilkinson
Confut. Fam. Love 9b, Although the place.. be verbatim
and word for word as I alledged it, yet will he not be satisfied.
160a Willis Stenographic A ij b. He that is well
practized in this Art, may write Verbatijn, as fast as a man
can treateably speake. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrol. Res. 155
A Volume five times as large as is this, is not able to contain
them all verbatim. X709 Steele Tatler No. 11 P 4, I sliall
give you my Cousin's Letter Verbatim, without altering a
Sellable. 1771 Encycl. Brit. I. 620/2 Merchants are provided
with a large book, inyblio, into which is copied verbatim
every letter of business before it be sent off. i8z6 F.
Reynolds Li/e