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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)
Adjective
verbarian (not comparable)
- (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.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge