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Found 5 hits - Term: verbal, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
verbal \ver"bal\, a. f., fr. l. verbalis. see verb.
   1. expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but
      commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not
      written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
      1913 webster

            made she no verbal question?          --shak.
      1913 webster

            we subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the
            reader a far better notion of the structure than any
            verbal description could convey to the mind.
                                                  --mayhew.
      1913 webster

   2. consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing
      with words rather than with the ideas intended to be
      conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
      1913 webster

            and loses, though but verbal, his reward. --milton.
      1913 webster

            mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial
            knowledge.                            --whewell.
      1913 webster

   3. having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as,
      a verbal translation.
      1913 webster

   4. abounding with words; verbose. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. gram. of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group;
      derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in
      forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
      1913 webster

   verbal inspiration. see under inspiration.

   verbal noun gram., a noun derived directly from a verb or
      verb stem; a verbal. the term is specifically applied to
      infinitives, and nouns ending in -ing, esp. to the latter.
      see gerund, and -ing, 2. see also, infinitive mood,
      under infinitive.
      1913 webster
see also:
verb verbal inspiration inspiration verbal noun gerund -ing 
infinitive mood infinitive 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
verbal \ver"bal\, n. gram.
   a noun derived from a verb.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
verbal
     adj 1: communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a
            verbal protest"
     2: of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal
        ability"
     3: of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives
        like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
     4: relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good
        poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who
        sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude" ant: numerical
     5: expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
     6: prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so
        verbal"- shakespeare
see also:
numerical 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
140 moby thesaurus words for "verbal":
   adjectival, adverbial, answering, articulated, attributive,
   authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, colloquial,
   communicating, communicational, communional, conjunctive,
   conversational, copulative, correct, dinkum, enunciated, expressed,
   following the letter, formal, functional, genuine, glossematic,
   good, grammatic, honest, honest-to-god, iconic, inartificial,
   interacting, interactional, interactive, intercommunicational,
   intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive,
   interrogative, interrogatory, intransitive, lawful, legitimate,
   lexemic, lexical, lifelike, lingual, linguistic, linking, literal,
   morphemic, natural, naturalistic, nominal, nuncupative, oral,
   original, parol, participial, phrasal, postpositional,
   prepositional, pronominal, pronounced, pure, questioning, real,
   realistic, responsive, rightful, said, semantic, semantological,
   semasiological, sememic, semiotic, simon-pure, simple, sincere,
   sounded, speech, spoken, sterling, structural, substantive,
   sure-enough, symbolic, syntactic, tagmemic, telepathic,
   traditional, transitive, transmissional, true to life,
   true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected,
   unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied,
   uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted,
   unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning,
   unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented,
   unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated,
   unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, unwritten, uttered, verbatim,
   veridical, verisimilar, viva voce, vocabular, vocabulary, vocal,
   vocalized, voiced, voiceful, word, word-for-word, word-of-mouth




[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
verbal. parol; by word of mouth; as verbal agreement; verbal evidence. not 
in writing. 




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Verbal >> V Words
Verbal, definition of term: Verbal
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Verbal Inspirat >> V Words
Verbal Inspirat, definition of term: Verbal Inspirat
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