transverbalize

present singular third person transverbalizes · participle present transverbalizing · participle past transverbalized · past transverbalized

1. To translate language one word at a time.

   But Mr. Shedd would have the boy “transverbalize” to acquire a feeling for the Latin order.

   1908, Classical World, page 126

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   Thus they may learn strictly idiomatic French and attain some spoken French that is not merely English transverbalized.

   1921, Maryland School Bulletin, page 19

   The great majority of pupils confess that they do not even try to read the Latin; they begin at once to translate or to decipher or to transverbalize.[…]5 Translating (that is, transverbalizing) a series of Latin sentences—almost meaningless in themselves and without any discoverable connection with each other.[…]And we must train them in habits of fitting response other than merely transverbalizing the printed or spoken word.

   1925–34, Proceedings of the Convocation, pages 76 and 78

   He is not reading but deciphering, not translating but "transverbalising".[…]The matter of critical importance is that there shall be no transverbalizing the passage, or translation in the ordinary school use of that term.[…]divert it into a process of acquiring deciphering or transverbalizing ability.

   1925, Henry Clinton Morrison, The Teaching Technique of the Secondary School, pages 60, 73, and 86

   However, the next time I simply indicated the beginning of the sentence to prevent word-calling, or transverbalizing, which many teachers mistake for “reading back,” and to assist in the development of a wide eye-span, so necessary in good reading and absolutely essential to the stenographer in making perfect transcripts.

   1926–31, Research Studies in Commercial Education, page 92

   The so-called translation ability in which a pupil learns to use a lexicon to decipher the meaning of a page is really ‘transverbalizing.’ He may become skillful, but he is still deciphering, not reading.

   1926, Teaching, page 11

   Synonyms: transverbate