v. rare. [f. TRANS- 1 + L. verb-um word + -ATE3; after transliterate.] trans. To translate verbally or word for word. So Transverbation, verbal translation.
1885. Athenæum, 14 March, 349/2 (Philological Society). Mr. B. Dawson read a paper on the Revised Version of the New Testament…. He commended the accuracy of the revisers, but condemned their ‘transverbation’ of the Greek.
1896–7. H. Haigh, in Bible Soc. Record (N. Y.), Jan., 2. If we could take the Hebrew and the Greek and transverbate them it would be comparatively easy.
