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verbalist|ˈvɜːbəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. One who deals in, or directs his attention to, words only, apart from reality or meaning.
c1609F. Greville Hum. Learn. xxxi. (1894) 209 Yet not ashamed these Verbalists still are..To engage the Grammar rules in civil war For some small sentence which they patronize. 1629Gaule Holy Madn. 100 Vaine Verbalists! whose words are but wind. 1660Gauden Brounrig 171 Not that he was such a Formalist, Verbalist, and Sententiolist, as could not endure any alteration of words, or phrases, or method. a1750A. Hill Wks. (1753) II. 236 God grant now, that he mayn't think, I have piddled out this little heedlessness, with purpose to be even with him, in behalf of the poor verbalists. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 509 That this circumstance should have escaped the notice of mere verbalists, is not surprising. 1864Reader No. 99. 638/2 The extreme conclusions of the Verbalists. 1883J. Parker Apost. Life II. 15 The mere verbalist; yes, and even the mocker, may find his way into the church.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1889J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Meth. 130 The verbalist and confused pantheism of last century. 1891― Mod. Humanists 43 He himself became viciously verbalist.
2. One who is skilled in the use or knowledge of words.
1794T. Taylor Pausanias's Descr. Greece I. Pref. p. viii, His meaning is, frequently, on this account, inaccessible to the most consummate verbalists. 1822― Apuleius 351 This blunder of the editor, who was otherwise a good verbalist, is a deplorable specimen of ignorance in things of the greatest importance. 1860–1Philol. Soc. Trans. 164 The opinion of the best English verbalist I ever knew. |
