AVER

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A work horse, or working ox. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

2.
v.

To assert, or prove, the truth of. [Obs.]

3.
v.

To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.

4.
v.

To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth. It is sufficient that the very fact hath its foundation in truth, as I do seriously aver is the case. Fielding. Then all averred I had killed the bird. Coleridge.

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