veridicaladj.
/vᵻˈrɪdᵻkl/, U.S. /vəˈrɪdək(ə)l/ 1. Speaking, telling, or relating the truth; truthful, veracious.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adjective]
soothfastc825
soothsaȝelc900
trueOE
unlighela1200
sootha1250
un-i-lowec1380
textualc1386
veritable1489
truthful1568
troth telling1579
veridical1653
verificala1660
of veracity1671
veriloquous1672
veraciousa1677
unfabling1797
veridicous1817
falsehood-free1850
trothful1861
veridic1895
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxviii. 185 Who shall read this so veridical history.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlvi. 375 The veridical Triboulet did therein hint at what I liked well.
1786 S. Henley Notes in tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 259 Notwithstanding the reference of Ariosto to the veridical Archbishop.
1816 M. Keating Trav. Eur. & Afr. I. 321 The veridical Gulliver.
1847 T. Medwin Life Shelley I. 359 That very veridical review which assumes to be the oracle..of literature.
1861 A. Hayward Sel. Ess. (1878) II. 105 Mr. Gladstone's argument for converting Homer into a veridical historian.
2. spec. in Psychology. Of hallucinations, phantasms, etc.: Coincident with, corresponding to, or representing real events or persons.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [adjective] > corresponding to reality
presentifical1668
veridical1884
1884 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1883–4 2 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.
1898 Athenæum 25 June 824/1 The vision of the lady..is certainly spoken of..as if it had been ‘veridical’.
Derivatives
veridiˈcality n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [noun]
soothc950
soothOE
rightOE
soothnessc1275
soothness1297
soothshipc1320
soothhead1340
very1382
trotha1387
trutha1391
verity1422
veriment1528
true?1531
trueness1559
veriness1574
reality1604
veracity1664
veridicalness1727
the fact of the matter1808
truthfulness1835
actualité1840
the straight1866
satya1879
straight goods1892
veridicalitya1901
truth value1903
dinky1941
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [noun]
soothfastnessc825
trutha1450
fidelity1534
verity1565
veracity1623
truthfulness1647
veritableness1664
veridicalness1727
tell-truth1744
truthiness1832
veraciousness1860
veridicalitya1901
veridicity1937
a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. p. xliii The only valid evidence..for veridicality depends on a coincidence with some external event.
veˈridically adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adverb]
without(en, but leasec888
soothfastlya890
soothfasta1300
aefauldly1472
truthly1490
gospelly1596
sincerely1597
honest1654
sacredly1706
rightly1786
veraciously1807
truthfully1828
veridically1832
unfallaciously1852
honest-like1899
salva veritate1930
1832 F. Burney Mem. Dr. Burney II. 179 Next to Shakespeare himself, Pope draws human characters the most veridically, perhaps, of any poetic delineator.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [noun]
soothc950
soothOE
rightOE
soothnessc1275
soothness1297
soothshipc1320
soothhead1340
very1382
trotha1387
trutha1391
verity1422
veriment1528
true?1531
trueness1559
veriness1574
reality1604
veracity1664
veridicalness1727
the fact of the matter1808
truthfulness1835
actualité1840
the straight1866
satya1879
straight goods1892
veridicalitya1901
truth value1903
dinky1941
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [noun]
soothfastnessc825
trutha1450
fidelity1534
verity1565
veracity1623
truthfulness1647
veritableness1664
veridicalness1727
tell-truth1744
truthiness1832
veraciousness1860
veridicalitya1901
veridicity1937
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Veridicalness, Truth-speaking, or the Quality or Faculty of speaking Truth.
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