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verify(dictionary)

verify (iou)



verify verb trans. ME.
[Old & mod. French verifier from medieval Latin verificare, from Latin verus true: see -FY.]
a. Law. Support (a statement) by evidence or testimony; testify or affirm formally or on oath; append an affidavit to (pleadings). Also foll. by that. ME.
b. gen. Assert or affirm to be true or certain. Now rare. E16.
c. Support or back up by testimony. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
Show to be true or correct by demonstration or evidence; confirm the truth or authenticity of; substantiate. Also foll. by that. LME.
D. Simpson My husband was at home for lunch..a neighbour of ours can verify that.
Of an event, person, etc.: bear out, fulfil, or prove true (a prediction, promise, etc.). LME.
Scientific American Hertz verified his prediction by detecting electromagnetic waves in space.
Ascertain or test the accuracy or correctness of, esp. by examination or by comparison of data etc.; check or establish by investigation. Also foll. by that, whether. E16.
K. M. E. Murray Documentary evidence had been examined afresh and quotations from manuscripts verified. A. Maupin I have verified for certain that she and the children weren't among the dead.
Cause to appear true or authentic. rare. L16.
verifier noun (a) a person who or thing which verifies something; (b) spec. a keyboard device for checking whether a card or paper tape is correctly punched by indicating any discrepancy when it is inserted and the data on it keyed a second time: M17.