verbatim et literatim

[ wer-bah-tim et lee-te-rah-tim; English ver-bey-tim et lit-uh-rey-tim ]

adverb

, Latin.

1. word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.

Example Sentences

The following lines are copied, verbatim et literatim, from a window pane in an upstairs room of the Talbot Inn, Ripley.

From Project Gutenberg

Des faux Sorciers et de leur Impostures" occurs the following passage, which I copy verbatim et literatim:— "Autres ont une ruse, qu'ils semblent d'attacher un anneau d'or ou d'argent � un petit filet, qu'on suspend dans un verre � demy plain d'eaue, et puis l'ayant tremp� pair trois fois, disent bellement ce verset du Psalme, autant de fois, 'Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti, incerta et occulta sapienti� tu� manifestasti mihi.'

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These, we pledge ourselves, were his highness' OWN WORDS, verbatim et literatim.

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But when there is any particular degree of spirit or animation evinced by one who is reading his discourse verbatim et literatim, it is of necessity a preconcerted exhibition, and as such must fail of its effect with the majority.

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If there were reason to suppose that the Received Text represented verbatim et literatim the text which was current at Antioch in the days of Chrysostom, it would still be impossible to regard it as a standard from which there was no appeal.

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