Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game played witb the letters of the alphabet
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A game in word making. See
logomachy , 2.
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- noun dated A
word game in which theplayers are given a set ofletters and must form as manywords as possible fromsubsets of those letters.
Etymologies
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Latin, from verbum word.
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Examples
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I remember one evening in her own home in Dorset, when four of us were engaged in a game of verbarium, two against two -- the opposite party were gaining rapidly.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859
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I remember one evening in her own home in Dorset, when four of us were engaged in a game of verbarium, two against two ” the opposite party were gaining rapidly.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882
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