Crossword clues for verify
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verify \Ver"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Verified; p. pr. & vb. n. Verifying.] [F. v['e]rifier, LL. verificare, from L. verus true + -ficare to make. See Very, and -fy.]
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To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.
This is verified by a number of examples.
--Bacon.So shalt thou best fulfill, best verify. The prophets old, who sung thy endless reign.
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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.
--Shak. To maintain; to affirm; to support. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Old French verifier "substantiate, find out the truth about" (14c.), from Medieval Latin verificare "make true," from Latin verus "true" (see very) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To substantiate or prove the truth of something 2 (context transitive English) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something 3 (context transitive legal English) To affirm something formally, under oath
WordNet
v. confirm the truth of; "Please verify that the doors are closed"; "verify a claim"
verify or regulate by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard, of scientific experiments; "Are you controlling for the temperature?" [syn: control]
attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)
to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear]
[also: verified]
Usage examples of "verify".
Those poor monks sitting around their tables dutifully writing out bestiaries had no way of verifying many of the reports they got about animals in far-off places, remember.
No thermometer verified this, but a few weeks later the symptoms of nausea and hypersensitive noses did.
Its actions verified her theory that Lowth was a living entity and knew of her presence.
One of these was sacrificed to microdissection, to verify that the chromosomes held no abnormalities.
Glaucia, getting to his feet after verifying that Quintus Nonius was indeed dead.
The burns are precalculated in the flight plan, but we still do a complete check to verify time and location.
Our passage had, after all, been prepaid, and we verified that every hex had a Zone Gate and from Zone we could be instantly back in Dillia no matter how far in the world we roamed, so return tickets were not a worry, either.
Clementine possesses a manuscript with which he presented her, containing a number of mythological tales verified.
Blade hastened past Prine and entered the cell without bothering to verify the cell was occupied.
If ever she caught his eyeand it happened altogether too frequentlyhe lofted one eyebrow or both and grasped the handle of his quizzing glass as if he were about to verify the amazing fact that such a lowly mortal really had dared lift her eyes to his.
Paraetonium to Siwa to here, hundreds of kilometers beyond human thought or action, half a mile down, where the gigantic claw diggers had ceased their abrading, the two of us with simple pick and shovel, standing on the last thin layer of compacted dirt and rock that roofed whatever great shadowy structure lay beneath us, a shadow picked up by the most advanced deep-resonance-response readings, verified on-site by proton free-precession magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar brought in from the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States.
Manifest, COD charges and destination are set by the shipper and then locked when the PA verifies and seals the shipment.
After it was verified in the press that the bloke Roger had wounded could testify against Spinnet, Roger shunted him to the side, hid him away, and began impersonating him using Polyjuice Potion.
But we are certainly standing only upon the threshold of a scientific interpretation of spiritistic phenomena and until the whole region has been very much more carefully worked through and far more dependable facts are in hand, one can only say that Spiritism is a hypothesis which may or may not be verified, and attend the outcome.
Where else would you possibly end up -- or are you implying some kind of secret passage, always with a man stationed to verify your nakedness, including even the indigitation of your vagina?