10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERBARIAN»
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A Supplementary English Glossary
Miss Austen, Persuasion, ch. v. Verbarian, word-coiner. In The Doctor, Southey
gives himself free scope as a verbarian — Hall, Modern English, p. 21.
Verdinoale, a farthingale.' And busks, and verdinqales about their hips. Hall,
Satires, IV. vi.
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
The verbally used [Scythian] ionns are rather but one step removed irom nouns
used predicatively, with subjec~ tlve or possessive pronominal elements
appended. Whitney, Liie and Growth oi Lang., p. 233. verbarian (ver-ba'ri-an), n.
and a.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1900
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
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, verbarium (ver-ba'ri-um)
...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
The verbally used [Scythian] iorms are rather but one step removed from nouns
used predicatively, with subjective or possessive pronominal c ements ap ended.
Whitney, Liie and Growth 0 Lung, p. 233. verbarian (vcr-ba'ri-gn), n. and a.
William Dwight Whitney, 1904
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
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. llall, Mod.
Eng., p. 21, note 2. II. a. Of or pertaining to words ; verbal, verbarium (ver-ba'ri-urn
), ...
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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete ...
One who deals in words merely; one skilled in words; a literal adherent to, or a
minute critic of words; a verbarian. Verbality (ver-bal'i-ti), n. The state or quality of
being verbal; mere words; bare literal expressions. Sir T. Browne. Verbalization ...
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A Dictionary of the English Language, Containing the ...
... own experience ; anc added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused
himself with the thought of a verbarian attorney-general, authorized to bring infor
mation ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, ...
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The New Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified ...
(old) 124; colloquial; Anglice. dex, glossary, thesaurus, gradus, delectus,
concordance. etymology, derivation; gloss-, termin-, orism-ology; paleology &c, (
philology) 560. lexicography ; glossographer &c. (scholar) 492; lexicologist,
verbarian.
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson, Peter Mark Roget, 1911
No brogue, no foreign accent, but pure, unadulterated English, with a lack of long
words — a verbarian habit worthy of imitation even by those who boast of having
souls above an oyster. My sudden and unannounced appearance among them ...
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I. On the constitution of the Church a. State 3d ed. [1e ...
... own experience; and added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused
himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring
informations er oflicio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive
circulation, ...
S. Taylor Coleridge, H.N. Coleridge, 1839
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A Point of View: What's the point of satire?
After all, in a working life that's consisted, in large part, of tossing lexical firecrackers in the bemused faces of more placid verbarians, I've ended up with some of ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
