verisimilar

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But formerly, and especially by the theoreticians, by verisimilar was understood historical credibility, or that historical truth which is not demonstrable, but conjecturable, not true, but verisimilar.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Charming, but in no proper sense of the word natural or verisimilar.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Now, I am to perform all this, it seems, without making any thing verisimilar or agreeable!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

But the ridiculous must no longer come forward as the pure creation of his own fancy, but must be verisimilar, that is, seem to be real.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

Are these dramas of his not verisimilar only, but true; nay, truer than reality itself, since the essence of unmixed reality is bodied forth in them under more expressive symbols?

From English literary criticism by Various