worded

Verb

word (third-person singular simple present words, present participle wording, simple past and past participle worded)

1. (transitive) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
   • strongly worded letter

   Synonyms:

   express, phrase, put into words, state

2. (obsolete, transitive) To flatter with words, to cajole.
   • He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / be noble to myself.1607, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, act 5, scene 2

   Synonyms:

   blandish, butter up, inveigle, blandander, cajole, sweeten, fast-talk, canoodle, carny, coax

3. (transitive) To ply or overpower with words.
   • […] if one were to be worded to death, Italian is the fittest Language [for that task]1621 November 30, James Howell, letter to Francis Bacon, from Turin
4. (rare, transitive) To conjure with a word.
   • Against him […] who could word heaven and earth out of nothing, and can when he pleases word them into nothing again.c. 1645-1715, Robert South, Sermon on Psalm XXXIX. 9
5. (archaic, intransitive) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
   • Thus wording timidly among the fierce: / "O Father, I am here the simplest voice, […]"1818–1819, John Keats, “Hyperion, a Fragment”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 181

   Synonyms:

   chat, jaw, moot, common, confab, confabulate, conversate, converse, convo, discourse

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