a. rare. [f. L. vēridic-us (see prec.) + -OUS.] Veridical, veracious.
1817. T. L. Peacock, Melincourt, xix. Our Thalia is too veridicous to permit this detortion of facts. Ibid. (1831), Crotchet Castle, xvii. This veridicous history began in May.
1847. Felix Summerly’s Pleasure Excursions: Guildford, 10. Guildford Castle is not mentioned in veridicous history before Stephen’s time, though it has been called a Saxon building.
1851. Morning Post, 5 March, 4/4. If, however, our readers would prefer learning the appreciation of their life by real, live thieves,—its chances, its pleasures, and its pains,—we refer them to the veridicous pages of Hardy[,] Vaux, and Vidocq. Ibid. (1852), 8 March, 4/5. Her name was Parizade, and our readers will find her veridicous history in that lifetime of the marvellous and delightful, the ‘Arabian Night.’
