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noun

document n.

1.

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma. (Obs.) "Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time."

2.

An example for instruction or warning. (Obs.) "They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others."

3.

An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. "Saint Luke... collected them from such documents and testimonies as he... judged to be authentic."

verb

Document v. t.

1.

To teach; to school. (Obs.) "I am finely documented by my own daughter."

2.

To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

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"Document" Quotes from Famous Books

... persons of my years and profession. Though I believed myself to be acting by his express wish, I felt like a criminal. The ball, a small one, much corroded with blood, was at length removed; and I was then directed to wrap it in a partly-printed letter, or other document, and place it in the breast-pocket of a faded and much-worn scarlet soldier's coat, put over the shirt which enveloped the body. The flowers were then hastily replaced, the hands and the peak of the handsome nose remaining visible among them; ...

— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

... to report the speech as made and telegraph it to the paper. They did so and the speech as reported and published in the "Enquirer" was so much more sensational and better than the prepared speech that it was selected by the Republican state committee for publication as a campaign document. This enterprise of an unfriendly newspaper resulted to my advantage rather than my detriment, for on account of the interruptions the speech reported was much more ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... you have learnt from Malpertuis to-night, I myself could have told you. Yes; St. Auban has carried Canaples's letter to the Cardinal already. I heard from his lips to-day—for I was present at the interview—how the document had been wrested from Malpertuis. For your sake, so that you might learn all he knew, I sought the fellow out, and having found him in the Rue des Tournelles, I ...

— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini

... wondered at this discrepancy between document and tradition. Last spring, when I was in Bath for a few days, my mind brooded especially on the question. Indeed, Bath, with her faded memories, her tristesse, drives one to reverie. Fashion no longer smiles from her windows nor ...

— The Works of Max Beerbohm • Max Beerbohm

... will be of one hundred and fifty millions, on which they are at liberty to circulate treble the amount. I should sooner, therefore, believe two hundred millions to be far below than above the actual circulation. In England, by a late parliamentary document, (see Virginia Argus of October the 18th, 1813, and other public papers of about that date) it appears that six years ago, the bank of England had twelve millions of pounds sterling in circulation, which had increased to forty-two millions in 1812, ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

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