v. [f. VERB 1 + -(I)FY.] trans. To convert (a noun, etc.) into a verb. Also absol.
a. 1813. [see ppl. a.].
1872. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, 183. Not only does the language avail itself of this facility of verbifying a noun, but even [etc.].
1884. Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc., XV. p. xxvii. Nouns become verbified by the appending of inflectional affixes, generally suffixes, and are inflected like verbs. Ibid., p. xxxii. Hitchiti verbifies in the same manner.
So Verbified, Verbifying ppl. adjs.
a. 1813. Murray, Hist. Europ. Lang. (1823), II. 265. A consonant or long vowel may intervene, which vowel or consonant may be justly called the verbifying consignificative.
1884. Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc., XV. p. xxxii. An instance of a verbified substantive, miki, ‘chief,’ was presented above.
