| 单词 |
verbiage |
| 释义 |
verbiage|ˈvɜːbɪɪdʒ|
[a. F. verbiage (17th c.), irreg. f. L. verb-um word: see -age. So Pg. verbiagem.]
1. Wording of a superabundant or superfluous character, abundance of words without necessity or without much meaning; excessive wordiness.
a1721Prior Dial. Locke & Montaigne 275 Without..being guided by any sort of Verbiage like this. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 69 The Matter, when..cleared from the Perplexity of his abounding Verbiage, lies open to this easy Answer. 1787C. Smith Rom. Real Life I. 167 The repetitions and verbiage of the pleadings [have been] reduced. 1858Sears Athan. i. iii. 20 In vain you take refuge in abstractions and verbiage. 1880L. Stephen Pope iii. 73 The Homeric phrase is thus often muffled and deadened by Pope's verbiage.
2. Diction, wording, verbal expression.
1804Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1835) III. 193 All that is nothing; the previous verbiage [of the treaty] is thought sufficient to bind us. 1814New Brit. Theatre III. 286 The language of the dialogue is as familiar as the verbiage of the parlour fireside. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 186 Independently of this distinctiveness of verbiage there is a wide difference between the two Epistles in the general form of thought.
Hence [or f. F. verbiager vb.] verbiˈagerie.
1817Blackw. Mag. I. 469 Her obscurity,—her high-sounding phrases,—..and all the imposing apparatus of verbiagerie, are not unsparingly employed. |
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