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Accurate

adjective

Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy. "The accounting was accurate" , "Accurate measurements" , "An accurate scale"

(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct. Synonyms: exact, precise. "A precise measurement"

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... Madrid; indeed I merely awaited the return of Victoriano to sally forth; I having dispatched him in that direction with a few Testaments, as a kind of explorer, in order that, from his report as to the disposition manifested by the people for purchasing, I might form a tolerably accurate opinion as to the number of copies which it might be necessary to carry with me. However, I heard nothing of him for a fortnight, at the end of which period a letter was brought to me by a peasant, dated from the prison of Fuente la Higuera, a village eight leagues from Madrid, in the Campina of ...

— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

... for some time longer in the same strain: and Wilton could not but feel that Lord Sherbrooke gave an accurate though a terrible picture ...

— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James

... is able to obtain early and accurate information from foreign parts of the death in battle of Irish soldiers is yet undecided in Hibernian mystical circles. Some believe that there are, in addition to the two kinds already mentioned, "silent Banshees," who act as attendants to the members of old families, one to ...

— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.

... grows long, and I must hasten to conclude it. Read repeatedly Cowper's lively poem on conversation, which seems to me to have much of the spirit and accurate moral taste of Horace, with the elevation derived from Christianity. Read, too, if you can lay your hand on it, Bishop Horne's paper on conversation, in the Olla Podrida. In these two essays you will ...

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... painting in which he wishes to introduce a deer, or a group of rabbits, or an American eagle, or a peacock, asks for an accurate picture of the bird or animal wanted. You put before him J. S. Kingsley's Riverside Natural History, in six volumes, and his ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

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