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/vˈɛrəfˌaɪ/ 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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"Verify" Quotes from Famous Books

... command 'ping(8)' can be used to do this manually (note that 'ping(8)''s author denies the widespread folk etymology that the name was ever intended as acronym 'Packet INternet Groper'). Occasionally used as a phone greeting. See {ACK}, also {ENQ}. 2. /vt./ To verify the presence of. 3. /vt./ To get the attention of. 4. /vt./ To send a message to all members of a {mailing list} requesting an {ACK} (in order to verify that everybody's addresses are reachable). "We haven't heard much of anything from ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... succor the Pope in his needs. A little fellow, a herder, who dared to assert that he had seen nothing more than one light and two men in salakots had difficulty in escaping with mere slaps and scoldings. Vainly he swore to it; there were his carabaos with him and could verify his statement. "Do you pretend to know more than the Warden and the Sisters, paracmason, [138] heretic?" he was asked amid angry looks. The curate went up into the pulpit and preached about purgatory so ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... very significant ... is that Madame Blavatsky in 1875 wrote this: "I have been sent from Paris to America in order to verify phenomena and their reality and to show the deception of the Spiritualist theory." Sent by whom? Later she will say: by the "Mahatmas"; but then there was no question of them, and besides it was in Paris that she received her mission, and not in ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

... recovered property as if to verify his words—a brown leather pocketbook with a silver clasp. Priscilla gazed from it to its owner in startled silence. Her heart was beating almost to suffocation. She knew ...

— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... radioactivity. Somewhere deep in Nature's laboratory these waters become charged with an uplifting power which is imparted to those who bathe according to the rules which many years of experience have prescribed. Many physicians refuse to verify the waters' virtues; some openly scoff. But the fact stands that every year hundreds who come helpless cripples walk jauntily to the station on their departure, and many thousands of sufferers from rheumatic ills and the wear and tear of strenuous living return to their homes ...

— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard

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