Meanings
plural verbarians
- rareOne who coins words.
Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian.
1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English
- not comparableobsoleteOf or relating to words; verbal.
1 more example
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.
1830, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Concerning the Right Idea of the Constitution”, in On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the Idea of Each: […], London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., →OCLC, footnote *, page 19
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Rhymes with verbarian
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