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veritable, a. (and adv.)|ˈvɛrɪtəb(ə)l|
Also 5 veritabill, 6 verytable.
[a. OF. and AF. veritable (mod.F. véritable, = It. veritevole), f. verite verity: see -able.
App. the word had become obsolete by the middle of the 17th century, and was revived early in the 19th. Webster (1828–32) notes it as ‘little used’.]
1. Of a statement, etc.: That is in accordance or conformity with the truth or verity; true. ? Obs.
1474Caxton Chesse ii. i. (1883) 21 Therfore hym ought to saye no thynge but yf hit were veritable and stable. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1068 We shall here tidinges..shortlye; For that is suth veritabill. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy) 20 In good fayth..thy tale is verytable, Grounded in lernynge, and gretly commendable. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iv. 76 Des. Indeed! is't true? Oth. Most veritable, therefore looke too 't well. 1649Evelyn Liberty Servitude iv. Misc. Writ. (1825) 21 It was not lesse lawfull to men who comprehended thoughts worthy and veritable, such as we might have of things divine, to possesse an heart elevated and a courage invincible.
†b. Of persons: Speaking the truth; truthful, veracious. Obs.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. vii. 11 The maners and condicions whiche belongen to a good conestable ben these, that he be not testyf..ne angry, But amesured and attemporat,..verytable in worde and promesse hardy. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) E vij b, The greatest faute..is to spare the trouthe and not to be verytable. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 46 The second warned him to bee all his life true, and veritable.
2. Genuine, real, true; not counterfeit, false, or spurious; correctly or properly so called.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 19/1 And to thende to preve that his deth was veritable he wold lye therin thre dayes. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xix. 262 But where the real works of Nature, or veritable acts of story are to be described, digressions are aberrations.
1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 24 Few persons..form anything like just estimates of the veritable size of trees. 1855Miss Cobbe Intuit. Mor. i. 73 Then Intuition must be given its natural position as the basis of the only veritable System of Ethics. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 8 A moral relish for veritable proofs of honesty.
b. Of things or persons.
1649Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Use Passions 9 The same Philosophers..imagined it [the soul] had parts as well as the body, and though they were more subtle, they were not less veritable. 1833Lamb Elia ii. Imaginative Faculty in Productions Mod. Art, He had painted a laudable orchard, with fitting seclusion, and a veritable dragon. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos II. xxiii. 249 A veritable personage was Whittington. 1881Lit. World 21 Jan. 37/1 Nelson, we all know, was a veritable sea king.
c. With the, in emphatic use.
1831Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. xiv. 320 A cast of the skull of Raphael—the veritable skull dug up at Rome. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. ix. 94 Next, sugar; what complex memories the word brings back!—the veritable sugar has been long ago defunct. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 150, I who am now talking..am the veritable Socrates.
3. In extended use, denoting possession of all the distinctive qualities of the person or thing specified.
1862C. Stretton Chequered Life I. 24, I tell you that Charley is a veritable eel. 1869A. Harwood tr. De Pressensé's Early Years Chr. iii. i. 360 They had a succession of governors who were veritable brigands. 1897Standard 2 Feb. 7/5 At Rochefort there was..a veritable hail of tiles, slates, etc. blown off the roofs.
†4. As adv. Veritably, truly. Obs.—1
1490Caxton Eneydos xxvi. 93, I beleue veritable that it is for to take vengeaunce of the feyth & of the grete othe..whiche I haue violated falsly.
Hence ˈveritableness, truth, veracity.
1664J. Newburgh in Evelyn Pomona, etc. 44, I am so well assured of the veritableness of my neighbours relation, that I dare not question it. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vii. 189 But the psychologist must not only have his mental states in their absolute veritableness, he must report them and write about them. 1926R. Clements Stately Southerner 142 Whatsoever shape the apparition may have taken, a belief in its veritableness has persisted from of old. |