[See next and -FICATION.] The action of converting a substantive into a verb.
1871. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, vi. 259. Reason will be given … for supposing that it had its beginning in the verbification of a French substantive.
1884. Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc., XV. p. xxxii. The languages of Maskoki affinity … have the power of expressing accidental and real existence by a verbification of the noun.
