Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Veracious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Veracious \Ve*ra"cious\, a. [L. verax, -acis, fr. verus true.
See {Very}.]
1. Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful;
as, veracious historian.
The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely
veracious. --Barrow.
2. Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account
or narrative.
The young, ardent soul that enters on this world
with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will
find it a mad one. --Carlyle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
veracious
adj 1: habitually speaking the truth; "an honest man"; "a veracious
witness" [syn: {honest}]
2: precisely accurate; "a veracious account"
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