a. [f. VERB + -LESS.] Having no verb.
1830. [Lamothe-Langon], Priv. Mem. Crt. Louis XVIII., I. 359. Such is the secret of his [Napoleon’s] elliptic style, and of his fondness for the abrupt and verbless sentences of Ossian.
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), I. 75. What is called a fluent man,… in whose discourse are no verbless nominative cases.
1858. J. Robertson, Poems, 80. The nounless, verbless tongue.
1908. Daily Chron., 27 Jan., 4/7. After searching through a solid page of verbless matter.
