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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VERA'CIOUS, a. [L. verax, from verus, true.]
1. Observant of truth; habitually disposed to speak truth.
2. True. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: habitually speaking the truth; "a veracious witness"
2: precisely accurate; "a veracious account" [syn: veracious, right]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin verac-, verax — more at very Date: circa 1677 1. truthful, honest 2. marked by truth ; accurate • veraciously adverb • veraciousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. formal 1 speaking or disposed to speak the truth. 2 (of a statement etc.) true or meant to be true. Derivatives: veraciously adv. veraciousness n. Etymology: L verax veracis f. verus true

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Veracious Ve*ra"cious, a. [L. verax, -acis, fr. verus true. See Very.] 1. Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian. The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious. --Barrow. 2. Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative. The young, ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will find it a mad one. --Carlyle.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Truthful, observant of truth, true, truth-loving, straightforward, trustworthy, reliable. 2. True, credible, reliable, trustworthy, honest.

Moby Thesaurus

actual, ascertained, attested, authenticated, categorically true, certain, certified, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, direct, documentary, effectual, established, factual, historical, not in error, objectively true, proved, real, substantiated, sure-enough, true, true as gospel, true-meaning, true-speaking, true-tongued, truth-bearing, truth-declaring, truth-desiring, truth-filled, truth-guarding, truth-loving, truth-passing, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthful, unconfuted, undeceitful, undeceptive, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, valid, validated, veridical, verified, veritable