Verb

verb, n. ( gram. ) the part of speech which a erts or predicates something.— adj. Ver′bal , relating to or consisting in words: spoken (as opposed to written ): exact in words: attending to words only: literal, word for word: derived directly from a verb.— n. a part of speech, a noun derived from a verb.— n. Verbal isā′tion .— v.t. Ver′balise , to turn into a verb.— ns. Ver′balism , something expre ed in words or orally; Ver′balist , one skilled in words: a literalist; Verbal′ity .— adv. Ver′bally .— ns. Verbā′rian , a coiner of words; Verbā′rium , a game played with the letters of the alphabet.— adv. Verbā′tim , word for word: ( Shak. ) orally, verbally.— ns. Ver′biāge , abundance of words: wordine : verbosity; Ver′bicide , the perversion of a word, as if the killing of its natural meaning: one who so mangles words, a punster; Ver′biculture , the deliberate cultivation or production of words; Verbificā′tion , the act of verbifying.— v.t. Ver′bify , to verbalise.— ns. Verbigerā′tion , the morbid and purposele repetition of certain words and phrases at short intervals; Ver′bo-mā′niac , one crazy about words and their study, a dictionary-maker.— adj. Verbōse′ , containing more words than are nece ary: wordy: diffuse.— adv. Verbōse′ly .— ns. Verbōse′ne , Verbos′ity .— Verbal definition , a definition intended to state the meaning of a word, apart from the e ence of the thing signified; Verbal inspiration , that view which regards Holy Scripture as literally inspired; Verbal note , in diplomacy, an unsigned memorandum calling attention to a neglected, though perhaps not urgent, matter. [Fr. ver be —L. verbum .]