verisimilar

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"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 Scott, Walter, Sir

Charming, but in no proper sense of the word natural or verisimilar.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

But our poet hath not so much art left him as to frame any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, to amuse the people, or wherewith to deceive them.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The writer's cunning is shown by the fact that he does not stop abruptly: but finishes off with some subsequent and quite verisimilar experiences of the Dutch ship.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

Aesthetic truths for Baumgarten were those which did not seem altogether false or altogether true: in fact, the verisimilar.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto