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To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny. We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. John iii. 11.

Open attestation; profession. [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne Universal reproach. Milton.

tood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life." Many speak of theology as a science of religion [instead of "science of God"] because they disbelieve that there is any knowledge of God to be attained. Prof. R. Flint (Enc. Brit.).…

ural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.

ent; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth. Glanvill.

A division of struthious birds, including the tinamous.

r actions. My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John iii. 18.

Transmission from one to another. [Obs.] Traditional communication and traduction of truths. Sir M. Hale.

behind it. Addison. Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train. Milton. Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. Locke.

Elevation above truth; exaggeration. [Obs.] "Where transcendencies are more allowed." Bacon.

Truth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth. Shak. In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs. Addison.

A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

In accordance with truth; truly. Shak.

The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.

An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.

In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented. I can not truly say how I came here. Shak.

tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.

Shadowy resemblance; shadow. [Obs.] The opinion carries no show of truth nor umbrage of reason on its side. Woodward.

he contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like.