verbate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from verbatim. Equivalent to verb +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

verbate (third-person singular simple present verbates, present participle verbating, simple past and past participle verbated)

1. To transcribe or repeat verbatim.
   • 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.

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