Dictionary entry

Veracious

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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; true; 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.