a. Obs. rare. = VERBOSE a.
1657. G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vind., 46. Which Art … hath been opposed, slandered, reproached, reviled and gainsaid by the verbous, railing Galenists.
1659. O. Walker, Oratory, A 4 b. To be Concise for the Pen;… Yet more circumlocutory and verbous for extempore-speech.
