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verisimilar, a.|vɛrɪˈsɪmɪlə(r)|
Also 7 very-, 9 veri-similar.
[f. L. vērisimilis, vērī similis (see verisimilitude), after similar a. Cf. It. verisimile, Sp. verosimil, Pg. veri-, verosimil.]
Having the appearance or semblance of truth or reality; appearing true or real; probable.
In early use rare. Frequent from c 1845, app. after Carlyle, who used it freely.
1681Ess. Peace & Truth Ch. 2 As the Opposition to Truth is either from a downright Lie; or a verisimilar Semblance. 1682Dryden Dk. Guise Dram. Wks. 1725 V. 334 Now I am to perform all this it seems, without making any Thing verisimilar or agreeable. 1683T. Hunt Def. Charter Lond. 29 Our Poet hath not so much art left him as to frame any thing agreeable or very-similar to amuse the People or wherewith to deceive them. 1727Bailey (vol. II).
1827Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 39 Are these dramas of his not verisimilar only but true? 1846G. S. Faber Lett. Tractar. Secess. 3 Since I judge the doctrines of Rome to be more rational and verisimilar than any other doctrines whatever. 1887Lowell Democracy, etc. 165 But ‘Don Quixote’, if less verisimilar as a narrative,..appeals to far higher qualities of the mind.
Hence veriˈsimilarly adv.
1833Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. xiv. 338 Wordsworth..[was] represented verisimilarly enough as a man full of English prejudices, idle [etc.]. |