nonverbaladj.

1846 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 6 June 353/2 The utility of the non-verbal language is here so great, that all must be sensible of it.

1895 Mind 4 241 We seem to be driven..to the result that any attribute-name used as subject or predicate in a non-verbal proposition must be considered concrete.

1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie xv. 149 What I look for in any relationship is contact on the non-verbal level of intuition and feeling, that is, telepathic contact.

1988 Verbatim Autumn 1/2 Most feminists, even recognizing the influence of preverbal and nonverbal forces.., see acceptance of sexist language as an insidious poison.

1859 A. Holbrook Normal iii. 150 (in figure) Noun. Classes. Common—Sub-Classes. Collective and individual. Verbal and non-verbal. Abstract and concrete.

1932 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. iv. 219 Old Egyptian dispensed with the copula in more than one common sub-class of nominal or, as I prefer to call them, non-verbal sentences.

1965 D. Ward Russ. Lang. Today v. 123 Пред is productive, however, in non-verbal derivatives.

2000 S. Franks & T. H. King Handbk. Slavic Clitics 88 Most of the clitics are both syntactically and..phonologically proclitic on the finite verb, but complexities arise with nonfinite and nonverbal predicates.