What is "verbally"

Usage examples of "verbally".

I leave to others to determine how much censure an editor deserves for inveigling a weak, non-combatant man, also a publisher, to a pen of his own to be horsewhipped, if no worse, for the simple printing of what is verbally in the mouth of nine out of ten men, and women too, upon the street.

I myself have always been wholly incapable of putting two words together coherently in front of strangers, and it is fortunate that you found your calling as a priest and a polemicist, for I am much more comfortable silently examining the dead than verbally cross-examining the living.

Orders, at our proximity with the Olivia and Tais, could be, for the moment, verbally conveyed.

There had been a time when he would have verbally stripped the tegument from an underling who had dared to do such a thing without permission, if only to show the miscreant that The Master was alert and quick to see the smallest of unauthorized changes.

Rather he fastened upon the end of that action with the wounded beast, made Vye go through it verbally a third time.

While the written records of his ancient race did not directly instruct or address the matter of mating with other humans, Bourke had verbally cautioned him that females not of Waniand blood themselves sometimes balked in the end and refused to complete the ritual.

The rajah had been so delighted that he asked the zamindar to invite this clever lad to visit him and perhaps verbally joust with the court advisors, whom, the rajah felt, could well use the competition.

But in the much more important world, where words are used and altered in the using, paradox does not mean merely this: it means at least something of which the antinomy or apparent inconsistency is sufficiently plain in the words used, and most commonly of all it means an idea expressed in a form which is verbally contradictory.

If Ellis Loew got ahold of the dope he would probably quash it along with the skinny on Betty as a part-time prostie, so I decided to omit it from the report and give the information verbally to Russ Millard.

I wish, by sight-aligning a reticle and numbering it verbally or by touch if I want other than sequential priority.

In the presence of the Society Broca gave him verbally a task in multiplication, composed of some trillions to be multiplied by billions.

External penance is that whereby a man shows external signs of sorrow, confesses his sins verbally to the priest who absolves him, and makes satisfaction for his sins according to the judgment of the priest.

But, when the invitation was verbally conveyed, Mr Finn had gone to the Admiralty, and had already made arrangements for going to sea, as a gallant sailor should.

The Chinese students who aspire to honors spend years in verbally memorizing the classics-- Confucius and Mencius--and receive degrees and public advancement upon ability to transcribe from memory without the error of a point, or misplacement of a single tea-chest character, the whole of some books of morals.

It was not at all clear that she would ever confide in him regarding any matter of true seriousness -- and even if she did, it would be for only one of two reasons: either because she wanted something other than a wall to talk to, or because she had devised some new means of tormenting him verbally.