Definition of "verbarian"

Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian.

1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English

That friend […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.

1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State