Definition of "verb"

In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes […]

1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] ‎, London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972

a Verb of the Singular

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727

You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.

1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321

The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.

2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach

Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed...

a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3

I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.

1993 January 25, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Nouns should never be verbed.

1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, page 8

In English, verbing nouns is okay

2005 October 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page 8

For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...

1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series

Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.

1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology

The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.

1998, Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse