verifiableadj.
/ˈvɛrᵻfʌɪəbl/, U.S. /ˌvɛrəˈfaɪəb(ə)l/, /ˈvɛrəˌfaɪəb(ə)l/ 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 frequently from c1865.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [adjective] > capable of being proved
provably1395
provablea1425
monstrablec1429
probable1485
demonstrable1551
justifiable1580
averrable1588
verifiable1593
ostentative1601
remonstrable1604
affirmable1611
demonstrative1612
showablea1617
deducible1617
declarable1646
evidenceable1660
evincible1761
demonstratable1814
establishable1918
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 64 I could peraduenture arread him his fortune in a fatall booke, as verifiable, as peremptorie.
1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 9 Why should not..Geffrey be as plaine and verifiable as Buchanan?
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 789 It is commended for a modest, discreet, learned, regular, and of all in that list most verifiable, discovery.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 199 If this notion be strictly verifiable.
1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica ii. i. i. iv. 102 That of the Foundation of the City..is verifiable by the like Authorities.
1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 322 A few only of the broadest laws verifiable by the reader's immediate observation.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i.xix. 75 Neither Homer nor Hesiod mentioned any verifiable present persons or circumstances.
1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams ii. xii. 227 The authority..will rest on the accredited, because verifiable, experience of man.
Derivatives
ˈverifiableness n. verifiability.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [noun] > quality of being provable
provability1657
demonstrability1663
evidenceableness1665
provableness1864
verifiabilitya1881
verifiableness1881
probativeness1925
1881 A. B. Bruce Chief End Revel. i. 42 While the abstract possibility of a revelation is admitted, its verifiableness is in effect denied.
1886 A. B. Bruce Mirac. Elem. in Gospels 294 They satisfy the modern requirements of verifiableness.
Draft additions 1993
ˈverifiably adv. in such a way as to be verifiable; demonstrably.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [adverb] > so as to be determined
demonstrably1642
ascertainably1863
determinably1895
verifiably1975
1975 Aviation 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.
1989 Computerworld 26 June 98/3 If the audits are undertaken, verifiably accurate reports could be made public in September.
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