Word Finder - vouched

definition

To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.

definition

To warrant; to maintain by affirmations

example

I can vouch that the match took place.

synonyms

• affirm
• attest
• avouch

definition

To back; to support; to confirm.

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To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.

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To call; to summon.

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To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.

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To call as a witness.

definition

To assert; to aver; to declare.

The second separation is vouched for by the two last elegies of book iii.

It appears but little in history, though its importance is vouched for by numerous inscriptions, the majority of which belong to the early Empire.

The custom is vouched for by travellers as still observed in Borneo, Burma, Uganda and elsewhere, the animal chosen being a pig or a fowl.

Its importance is vouched for by the many remains of antiquity which it possesses, of which the most famous is the triumphal arch erected in honour of Trajan by the senate and people of Rome in A.D.

The facts would seem incredible were they not vouched for by Theodoret, who knew him personally (Historia religiosa, c. 26).

This may be explained by a variety of causes, of which the chief is the maintenance by the Slays down to a very late period of gentile or tribal organization and gentile marriages, a fact vouched for, not only in the pages of the Russian chronicler Nestor, but still more by visible social evidences, the gens later developing into the village community, and the colonization being carried on by large co-ordinated bodies of people.

Its ancient importance is vouched for by its walls of rough cyclopean work, which may have had a total extent of some 2 m.

Several Roman inscriptions are built into it, and many others that have been found indicate the ancient importance of the place, which, though it does not appear in early history, is vouched for by Cicero and Strabo.'

Colossians is strongly vouched for by its connexion with Philemon.

On the other hand the cult of a specific storm-god in ancient Babylonia is vouched for by the occurrence of the sign Im - the "Sumerian" or ideographic writing for Adad-Ramman - as an element in proper names of the old Babylonian period.

Cresacre More's Life cannot be alleged as evidence for any facts which are not otherwise vouched.

Remains 1 This is the form vouched for by the inscriptions.

On the whole, the transaction, though it is too well vouched for to allow us to dismiss it as entirely fabulous, cannot take its place among the undoubted facts of history.

Pliny calls it the last town of Italy on the north-west, and its position at the confluence of two rivers, at the end of the Great and Little St Bernard, gave it considerable military importance, which is vouched for by considerable remains of Roman buildings.

He lived principally at Clapham Common, but he had also a town-house in Bloomsbury, while his library was in a house in Dean Street, Soho; and there he used to attend on appointed days to lend the books to men who were properly vouched for.

To Linnaeus, however, they represented normal .anthropomorpha or man-like creatures, vouched for by visitors to remote parts of the world.

Witnesses of course require to be advised that any claim for expenses require to be properly vouched.

In spite of an unusually large crop of scandals about him we cannot but believe that he bore an honourable character, and his integrity is vouched for by Thucydides in such strong terms as to exclude all further doubt on the question.