Search the Dictionary

before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton.

Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty. The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity. Hooker.

m. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

rue bill (of indictment) against an accused person. To find his title with some shows of truth. Shak. To find out, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand. "Canst thou by searching find out God" Job. xi. 7. "We do hope to find out all your tricks." Milton…

Decoration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw.

A flyaway person or thing. "Truth is such a flyaway." Emerson.

lf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against. We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 2 Cor. xiii. 8. It is for the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate. Tillotson. Aristotle is for poetical ju…

In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden. To forswear one's self, to swear falsely; to peforswear thyself."

An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

ly; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition. Fully committed (Law), committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for examination.

al, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords…

rain left by reapers. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth ii. 3.

ss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. Hooker.

The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.

figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. L' Estrange. -- To go far. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence. -- To go for. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for.

e; Jehovah. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv. 24.

Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.

g, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise. A poet must confess His art 's like physic -- but a happy guess. Dryden.