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Verify

verb

(past & past part. verified; pres. part. verifying)

Confirm the truth of. "Verify a claim"

Check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard. Synonym: control.

Attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition).

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true. Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear.

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"Verify" Quotes from Famous Books

... daughter's indisposition. When he visited her this morning, he was attended by his medical adviser. I was present at the interview. To do him justice, the Doctor is worthy of the trust reposed in him—he boldly attempted to verify his suspicions of the ...

— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins

... in her hand-bag, but at my words she took it out, not to verify my suggestion but to prolong for a moment her stay in order to find courage to broach the difficulty. For she had come to the office in desperation, determined to confide in me if she liked my face and felt I was ...

— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine

... countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He appears to have at least determined, that he would only write of those things of which he had intimate knowledge, and would under no circumstances take for granted what he could not by personal observation verify for himself. In speaking of India and the Cotton plant, he says: "The wild trees in that country bear for their fruit fleeces surpassing those of sheep in beauty and excellence, and the natives clothe themselves ...

— The Story of the Cotton Plant • Frederick Wilkinson

... at once," with sudden eagerness, "to verify what your lordship suggests, and I have their full corroboration; what the evidence of their eyes told them, that the rescued man bore on his arm the exact markings described ...

— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham

... the would-be salesman, "you have it all in one compact volume. No matter what the subject may be which you wish to look up, or the fact you desire to verify, Right Here gives you all that you want to know in the briefest and most enlightening form. Historical reference, for instance; career of John Huss, let us say. Here we are: 'Huss, John, celebrated religious reformer. Born ...

— The Toys of Peace • Saki

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