1512(?), Helyas, in 1827, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas: Knight of the Swan', page 2:
I have al onely verbated and folowed mine auctour as nyghe as I coulde with the profoundite of good herte, and where as oni faute bi me or wrong Impression be found intelligibly after their science to correct and amend in pardoning al ygnoraunce.
2014, Maria Dorfner, PRESSure: Break Into Broadcasting, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 91:
But in the field, when you don't have a squadron of ap's standing by to verbate everything and feed time is likely going to be limited, the better idea is to be as aware as possible of what's being shot, and to not waste the shooters' and tech's reservers of energy or time.
2017 January 23, John Coppinger, “This Week in NHL Stupid: The Mike Milbury edition”, in Puck Drunk Love[1]:
For example, if we at Puck Drunk Love assigned somebody to verbate everything that Mike Milbury said during pre-game, intermission, and post-game shows on television, we could find something to write about every week in this column.
2006 February 1, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 677:
"You've, ah, heard some of this story," said Rolf Thelemite. "From Drake Douay, I mean. Did you speak to him? They said you met him in 'Marphos, they said—" "Just the truth," said Alish, cutting off Rolf Thelemite's verbating. Then Rolf controlled himself, and gave a plain account of his doings. "I was engaged in this diplomacy business," said Rolf. "There was a mission, a mission from the Greaters to Ork." "So I've heard," said Alish.
unclear:
1976, David Bohm, Fragmentation and Wholeness, Humanities Press International, page 84:
Let us begin by introducing the root form 'to verbate', which implies a spontaneous and unrestricted attention to any use of language whatsoever (spoken, written, or symbolised in any other way) including, of course, the use of language that is now being made in this[…]
"verbatim", in a pointedly nonstandard speaker's speech
2014 June 10, Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel, Dial Press, →ISBN:
" 'Reverberating,' she corrected him, isn't a word that ends in '-bating.' " "Okay, I give you [an]other [word]." He paused. "Here, I have it: 'verbating.' " " 'Verbating'?" "When you speak something and I repeat it back same, then I am saying it verbating." " 'Verbatim.' ”
verbatim, a genuine(?) error
1892, Egypt Irrigation Department, Reports Upon the Administration of the Irrigation Services in Egypt and in the Sudan ..., page 67:
On these works Mr. Garstin makes the following remarks worthy of being extracted, verbating as they show what good will arise from an amelioration.
