[f. LANGUAGE sb.] trans. To express in language, put into words.
1636. Abp. Williams, Holy Table (1637), 95. Learn, Doctour, learn to language this Sacrament from a Prelate of this Church.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., VI. xiii. (1821), 294. The style and manner of languaging all pieces of prophecy.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. v. False Miracles § 11. Predictions … were languaged in such doubtfull Expressions, that they bare a double sense.
1667. Waterhouse, Fire Lond., 185. Seneca has languaged this appositely to us.
b. transf. To express (by gesture).
1824. New Monthly Mag., X. 196. ’Twas languaged by the tell-tale eye.
Hence Languaging vbl. sb. In quot. attrib.
1875. Lowell, in N. Amer. Rev., CXX. 395. It is very likely that Daniel had only the thinking and languaging parts of a poet’s outfit.
