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verifiable, a.|ˈvɛrɪfaɪəb(ə)l|
Also 7 verefiable.
[f. verify v. + -able.]
That can be verified or proved to be true, authentic, accurate, or real; capable, admitting, or susceptible of verification.
Common in the 17th cent., and freq. from c 1865.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 116, I could peraduenture arread him his fortune in a fatall booke, as verifiable, as peremptorie. 1593R. Harvey Philad. 9 Why should not..Geffrey be as plaine and verifiable as Buchanan? a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 789 It is commended for a modest, discreet, learned, regular, and of all in that list most verifiable, discovery. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 199 If this notion be strictly verifiable. 1677Cary Chronol. ii. i. i. iv. 102 That of the Foundation of the City..is verifiable by the like Authorities. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. v. i. §4 A few only of the broadest laws verifiable by the reader's immediate observation. 1846Grote Greece ii. xix. (1862) II. 76 Neither Homer nor Hesiod mentioned any verifiable present persons or circumstances. 1885Clodd Myths & Dr. ii. xii. 227 The authority..will rest on the accredited, because verifiable, experience of man.
Hence ˈverifiableness, verifiability.
1881A. Bruce Chief End Revelation i. 42 While the abstract possibility of a revelation is admitted, its verifiableness is in effect denied. 1886― Mirac. Element Gospels 294 They satisfy the modern requirements of verifiableness.
Add: ˈverifiably adv., in such a way as to be verifiable; demonstrably.
1975Aviation Week 7 Apr. 13/2 Pending an agreement that equitably and verifiably limits bombers, the B-1 is indispensable to help maintain the balance of strategic forces. 1989Computerworld 26 June 98/3 If the audits are undertaken, verifiably accurate reports could be made public in September. |