verisimilar

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"I have not," he says, "so much art left me to make any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, wherewith to amuse or deceive the people."

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

Aesthetic truths for Baumgarten were those which did not seem altogether false or altogether true: in fact, the verisimilar.

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

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 Lowell, James Russell

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 Croce, Benedetto

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