verisimilar
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Extravagant as are the situations in La Nuit et le Moment, the other best thing, they are, but for the longueurs already censured, singularly verisimilar on their own postulates.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
Thus the fancy takes the place of the verisimilar of certain students of Aristotle.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
"I have not," he says, "so much art left me to make any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, wherewith to amuse or deceive the people."
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
Sometimes the word "possible" has been used instead of "verisimilar."
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
But formerly, and especially by the theoreticians, by verisimilar was understood historical credibility, or that historical truth which is not demonstrable, but conjecturable, not true, but verisimilar.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
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