verbalization (verbal i zas hon)

[ The verbalization , if I may so expre it, of a noun is now a difficult matter, and we shrink from the employment even of well-authorized old nominal verbs. G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., xiv. verbalize (ver'bal-īz), v.; pret. and pp. verbal ized, ppr. verbalizing. [= F. verbaliser; as ver bal + -ize.] I. trans. To convert into a verb. G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., viii. II. in trans. To use many words; be verbose or diffuse. IMG:content-1778.png:[blocks in formation] Verbally to deny it. verbally South. (b) Word for word: as, to translate verbally. (c) Like a verb; as or in the manner of a verb. The verbally used [Scythian] forms are rather but one step removed from nouns used predicatively, with subjective or po e ive pronominal elements appended. Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., p. 233. verbarian (ver-bā'ri-an), n. and a. [L. ver bum , word, + -arian.] I. n. A word-coiner; a verbalist. In "The Doctor" Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian , much after the way of Rabelais, Thomas Nash, Taylor the Water-poet, or Feltham. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 21, note 2. II. a. Of or pertaining to words; verbal. ver barium (ver-bā'ri-um), n. [NL., bum , word: see verb .] verb .] A game played with the letters of the alphabet. (a) A game in which the player strives to make out a word when all the letters that compose it are given to him indiscriminately. (b) A game in which the player tries to form from the letters that compose a long word as many other words as po ible.