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verbalize, v.|ˈvɜːbəlaɪz|
[a. F. verbaliser (16th c.; = Pg. verbalizar), or f. verbal a. + -ize.]
1. intr. To use many words; to talk diffusely; to be verbose.
1609[Bp. W. Barlow] Answ. Nameless Cath. Ded. p. vii, Verbalize he can, dispute he cannot. 1648Hexham ii. App., Verbaliseren, to Verbalize, or make a speech. 1721Bailey, Verbalize, to be tedious in Discourse, to make many Words. 1889J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Meth. 130 Mr. Lowell verbalizes as to Duty being an eternal harmony.
2. trans. To make into a verb.
1659O. Walker Instr. Oratory 31 So nouns..are sometimes verbalized; as, to complete, to contrary, to experience. 1818Q. Rev. XIX. 207 To supply the place of the nouns thus verbalized Mr. Keats, with great fecundity, spawns new ones. 1860G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. viii, English no longer exercises..the protean gift of transformation, which could at pleasure verbalize a noun.
3. To express in words.
1875D. Greenwell Liber Humanitatis 42 The man of the world, whose creed has been thus..verbalized, ‘There's nothing new, and nothing true, and it's no matter’. 1886Gurney, etc. Phantasms of Living II. 23 It is more natural..to visualise it,..than to verbalise it in some imagined or remembered phrase.
Hence ˈverbalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1824J. Gilchrist Etym. Interpr. 90 What that something more or verbalizing property is, he either could not or would not inform the world. 1869W. G. T. Shedd Homiletics vi. 133 If the formation of the plan is merely a verbalizing process. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. iv. (1892) 48 A burst unnoticed in the incessantly verbalizing buzz of a continental supper-table. |