Hypertext Webster Gateway: "veritable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Veritable \Ver"i*ta*ble\, a. [F. v['e]ritable. See {Verity}.]
Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
``The veritable Deity.'' --Sir W. Hamilton. --
{Ver"i*ta*bly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
veritable
adj 1: often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details";
"a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine" [syn:
{regular(a)}, {veritable(a)}]
2: not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona
fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique";
"photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: {authentic},
{bona fide}, {unquestionable}]
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