ad verbum

American  

[ahd wer-boom, ad vur-buhm] / ɑd ˈwɛr bʊm, æd ˈvɜr bəm /

adjective

Latin.

1. to the word; exact in wording according to an original.

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ad verbum

Zwingli professes to give it entire, translating it, as he says, ad verbum into Latin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

And I read, and made him cognizant thereof, de verbo ad verbum, before him personally and many persons of his camp.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Mr. Stead then proceeds to quote the account which he had from Mr. Kendall, and which I append ad verbum from the Review of Reviews.

From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott

My translations are sometimes rather paraphrases than interpretations, non ad verbum, but as an author, I use more liberty, and that's only taken which was to my purpose.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

From one of his “Diaries,” which has escaped destruction, I transcribe some interesting passages ad verbum.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac