verisimilar
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If "verisimilar" be translated by "coherent," a most exact meaning will often be found in the discussions, examples, and judgments of the critics.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
Various anecdotes of him are related by Boccaccio, Sacchetti, and others, none of them verisimilar, and some of them at least fifteen centuries old when revamped.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
Sometimes the word "possible" has been used instead of "verisimilar."
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
