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/vˈɛrəfˌaɪ/ Listen

verb

Verify v. t. (past & past part. verified; pres. part. verifying)

To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate. "This is verified by a number of examples." "So shalt thou best fulfill, best verify. The prophets old, who sung thy endless reign."

To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenticate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like. "To verify our title with their lives."

To maintain; to affirm; to support. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Verify" Quotes from Famous Books

... up "Othello" and did not try to verify the remark of "jesting" Pilate. The only instruction that I gave myself was ...

— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry

... selected to sustain the honour and verify the pluck of Attakapas on this trying occasion was a black animal from the Opelousas, lithe and sinewy as a four year old courser, and with eyes like burning coals. His horns bore the appearance of having been filed at the tips, and wanted ...

— Clotel; or, The President's Daughter • William Wells Brown

... content with this. Even had his vocabulary been larger, he would as soon have thought of revealing the embarrassing secret of this woman, whom he believed to be of his own race, to a mere barbarian as he would of asking him to verify his own impressions by allowing him to look at her that morning. The next day, however, something happened which forced him to resume his inquiries. He was rowing around the curving spot when he saw a number of black objects on the northern sands moving in and out of the surf, ...

— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte

... earnestly entreating the most speedy decision of Congress upon the subjects of the late address from the army to that honorable body, it now only remains for me to perform the task I have assumed, and to intercede in their behalf, as I now do, that the sovereign power will be pleased to verify the predictions I have pronounced of, and the confidence the army have reposed in, the justice of their country. And here I humbly conceive it is altogether unnecessary (while I am pleading the cause of an army ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... What wondrous power that being has; Marion, I am as strong and well as ever; look at me, and see if my appearance does not verify ...

— Dawn • Mrs. Harriet A. Adams

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