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VERBERATING.
2. intr. To vibrate or quiver,
175s T. H. Gkoker Orl. Fur. xxxiv. I, A fragrant breeze
..Made the air trem'lous verberate (It. tremolar\ around.
Hence VeTberating///. a.
1867 J. B. RosK tr. Virgil's /Eneid 338 Crooked beak and
verberating wings.
Verberation (v5jl)er,f'*J'9n). [ad. L. verberatio,
noun of action from verberdre : see prec. So
F. verberation (i3-i4th cent.), Sp. verberaciofty
Pg. verherafdo.'l
1. The action of beating or striking, or the fact of
being struck, so as to produce sound percussion.
;
j6io Healev St. Aug. Citie o/God xvi. vi, (1620) 547 Not
admitting sound or verberation of aire. ^696 Phillips s.v.,
The cause of sounds that proceed from the Verberation of
the Air. 17*8 Chambers CycL s.v., Sound. .arises from a
Verberation of the Air. 1865 Sala Diary Amer, II. 131
Canada has often been declared, .to be 'knocking at the door
of the Union ' ; . . if Canada ever resorts to that method of
verberation [etc.].
b. Reverberation of sound.
1855 SiNGLFTos Virgil I. 186 Where The vaulted rocks
with verberation ring.
t2, (Seequot.) Obs,-^
1688 Holme Armoury u. 387/2 A Verberation, or Verberous
feeling; a smarting pain, as when we arc beaten
with rods, whips, or scourges.
3. The action of beating or striking so as to
cause pain or hurt ; esp. flogging or scourging
also, a blow or stroke.
C1730 Arbuthsot (J.), Redness and inflammation; all
the effects of a soft press or verberation, 1768 Blackstose
Cotttm. III. 120 The Cornelian law. .prohibited pulsation as
well as verberation; distinguishing verberation, which was
accompanied with pain, from pulsation which was attended
with none. 1774 Goldsm. Nat, Hist. (1862) 11. 427 It is
by the strong folds of the body, by the fierce verberatJons
of the tail, that the enemy is destroyed, i860 Thackeray
Round. Papers, Lazy little Boy, The anger, or. .the ver.
berations of his schoolmaster. \Z^^Daily^ Tel.-zi July, The
beadle, alas ! was armed with a different instrument of verberation.
i895C/«WJ. Rev.A^xW 146/1 It is idle to translate
*go on striking ', for the word is found repeatedly when the
verberation had not yet started.
Verberative, a. [f. Vebberatk f. : see
-ATIVE.] Addicted to the practice of flogging.
1866 Pall Mail G. I Aug. 9 Her mother was a strict disciplinarian
of the verberative school.
Verbere, southern ME. var. Forbear v.
t VeTberous, a. Obs.—^ [f. L. verber a blow.]
x688 [lee Verberation 2J.
Verbiage (v^-ibied,^). [a. F, verbiage (17th c),
irreg. f. 1^. verb-tim word : see -age. So Pg.
verbiagem^
1, Wording of a superabundant or superfluous
character; abundance of words without necessity
or without much meaning; excessive wordiness.
aty*t Prior Dial. Locke Reason will be
given, .for supposing that it had its beginnmgin the verbification
of a French substantive. 1884 Trans. Amer. Philol,
Assoc. XV. p. xxxii, The Kingua^es of Maskokt affinity.,
have the power of expressing accidental and real existence
by a verbification of the noun.
Verbify (vs-jbifsi), v, [f. Verb i+-(i)fy.]
trans. To convert (a noun^ etc.) into a verb. Also
' Please,
do give me the keys'.
Jlence Verbig-eration. Path.
1891 in Cent. Dict.^ 189J Tuke Diet. Psychol. Med. 11.
'.355/1 Verbigeration is an abnormal and unnecessary repetition
of words. Ibid. 1355/2 Verbigeration as a symptom, is
not rare. 1899 Allbuti's Syst. Med. VIII. 345 Verbigeration
has been noticed in some during the post-paroxysmal
automatism.
Verbill, obs. Sc. f. Warble.
Ve-rbing, vbl sb, [f. Verb i.] The using of
words as verbs.
1757 Mrs. Griffith Lett, Henry ^ Frances (1767) IV.
60 As to the Nouning and Verbing, which he so heavily
charged you with, I told him.. that you never confounded
Grammar.
VerbleSS (vaubles), a, [f. Verb -h -less.]
'Having no verb,