verifiable,
adj.
Brit. ˈvɛrᵻfʌɪəbl
U.S. ˌvɛrəˈfaɪəb(ə)l
Forms: Also 1600s
verefiable.
Etymology: <
verify v. +
-able suffix.
That can be verified or proved to be true, authentic, accurate, or real; capable, admitting, or susceptible of verification.Common in the 17th cent., and frequently from
c1865.
1593 G. Harvey
Pierces Supererogation 64 I could peraduenture arread him his fortune in a fatall booke, as verifiable, as peremptorie.
1593 R. Harvey
Philadelphus 9 Why should not..Geffrey be as plaine and verifiable as Buchanan?
a1638 J. Mede
Wks. (1672) 789 It is commended for a modest, discreet, learned, regular, and of all in that list most verifiable, discovery.
1661 J. Glanvill
Vanity of Dogmatizing 199 If this notion be strictly verifiable.
1677 R. Cary
Palæologia Chronica ii. i. i. iv. 102 That of the Foundation of the City..is verifiable by the like Authorities.
1846 J. Ruskin
Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 322 A few only of the broadest laws verifiable by the reader's immediate observation.
1846 G. Grote
Hist. Greece II. i.xix. 75 Neither Homer nor Hesiod mentioned any verifiable present persons or circumstances.
1885 E. Clodd
Myths & Dreams ii. xii. 227 The authority..will rest on the accredited, because verifiable, experience of man.