a. and sb. [f. L. verb-um word, after forms in -arian.] a. adj. Having to do with words. b. sb. An inventor or coiner of words.
1830. Coleridge, Church & State (1839), 25, note. A verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring information … against the writer or editor of any work … who … should persevere in misusing a word.
1873. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., 21. In The Doctor, Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian.
