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veriˈsimilous, a. Now rare. Also 7 veresimilous. [Irreg. f. L. vērī similis, vērisimilis: see verisimilitude.] Verisimilar.
1635F. White Sabbath 16 Many erronious doctrines of Pontificians, are in our dayes wholly supported by verisimilous and probable reasons. 1642Gauden Three Serm. 62 A Judge..needs bee a Critick,..to discerne betweene man and man, cause and cause, just and unjust, true and veresimilous. 1675E. W[ilson] Spadacrene Dunelm. 33 Any verisimilous conjecture concerning the causation of Springs. 1958New Scientist 23 Oct. 1119/2 Narratives which, although verisimilous to a degree, are shot through and through with the credulous and superstitious outlook of the seventeenth century. |