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veridical, a.|vɪˈrɪdɪkəl|
[f. L. vēridic-us (whence F. véridique, It., Sp., Pg. veridico), f. vērum truth, and dīc- stem of dīcĕre to speak.]
1. Speaking, telling, or relating the truth; truthful, veracious.
1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xxviii. 185 Who shall read this so veridical history. a1693Ibid. iii. xlvi. 375 The veridical Triboulet did therein hint at what I liked well. 1784S. Henley Beckford's Vathek Note (1868) 147 Notwithstanding the reference of Ariosto to the veridical archbishop. 1816Keatinge Trav. I. 321 The veridical Gulliver. 1847Medwin Life Shelley I. 359 That very veridical review which assumes to be the oracle..of literature. 1861A. Hayward Sel. Ess. (1878) II. 105 Mr. Gladstone's argument for converting Homer into a veridical historian.
2. spec. in Psychol. Of hallucinations, phantasms, etc.: Coincident with, corresponding to, or representing real events or persons.
1884F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Research Apr. 48 The truth-telling, or, as we may call them, veridical hallucinations which do, in fact, coincide with some crisis in the life of the person whose image is seen. 1898Athenæum 25 June 824/1 The vision of the lady..is certainly spoken of..as if it had been ‘veridical’.
Hence veridiˈcality, veˈridically adv., † veˈridicalness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Veridicalness, Truth-speaking, or the Quality or Faculty of speaking Truth. 1832F. Burney Mem. Dr. Burney II. 179 Next to Shakespeare himself, Pope draws human characters the most veridically, perhaps, of any poetic delineator. a1901F. W. H. Myers Hum. Personality (1903) I. p. xliii, The only valid evidence..for veridicality depends on a coincidence with some external event. |