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Webster 1913 Edition


Verbarian

Ver-ba′ri-an

,
Adj.
Of or pertaining to words; verbal.
[R.]
Coleridge.

Ver-ba′ri-an

,
Noun.
One who coins words; a neologist.
[R.]
Southey gives himself free scope as a
verbarian
.
Fitzed. Hall.

Definition 2024


verbarian

verbarian

English

Noun

verbarian (plural verbarians)

  1. (rare) One who coins words.
    • Fitzed. Hall
      Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian.

Adjective

verbarian (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of or relating to words; verbal.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      That friend [] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.