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/vˈɛrəfˌaɪɪŋ/ 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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"Verifying" Quotes from Famous Books

... confidential assistants hauled up the machine to the top of the inclined plane that gave it its impetus. Jimmy spent an endless time in verifying and testing everything. The electric wire that set the propeller in motion also caused him uneasiness. It had to unroll behind and follow the aerobike without weighing upon it, without retarding ...

— The Bill-Toppers • Andre Castaigne

... celebrated for its oaks, its cattle, and the bodily strength of its inhabitants. The opposite plate exhibits a view of the Jabbok, and of the bold Alpine range which fenced the territory of one of the most formidable enemies of Israel; verifying in its fullest extent the description of Moses, who says, "The border of the children of ...

— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell

... I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth HAPPENS to an idea. It BECOMES true, is MADE true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-FICATION. Its validity is ...

— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James

... this will give us the angles A B E and A B F together, forming the angle F B E of 60deg., which represents from lock to lock of the pallets. Since the chord of the angle of 60deg. is equal to the radius of the circle, this gives us an easy means of verifying this angle by placing the compass at the points of intersection of F B and E B with the primitive circle G H; this distance must be equal to the radius of the circle. At these points we will construct right angles to E B and F B, thus forming the tangents C A and D A to the primitive ...

— An Analysis of the Lever Escapement • H. R. Playtner

... should have expected nothing worse than a fresh breeze from the westward, preceded perhaps by a thunder-squall; but the barometer indicated something more serious than that, yet the sky gave no verifying sign of the approach of anything like a heavy blow. But I had long ago taken in everything except the boom-foresail, to save the sails from beating themselves to pieces, so I was pretty well prepared for ...

— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood

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