veri-, ver-

Light, truth, and skill for our people.

Motto of the Coastal Carolina Community College, Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA.

What is truth?

This is an anagram that is said to come from an unknown medieval writer. Readers of the New Testament will recall that, when Christ was taken before Pilate as a criminal, He said, "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."

When Pilate asked, "What is truth?" (Quid est veritas?) there is no indication that Christ replied; however, the medieval anagrammatist pointed out that, strangely enough, the question contained its own answer. A rearrangement of Quid est veritas gives us Est vir qui adest (It is the Man who is here); in other words, Christ Himself is the Truth (John 18:37-38).

Truth always.

Motto of Lake City Community College, Lake City, Florida, USA.

Where ever art makes itself felt, truth seems to be wanting. (Ars est celare artem: Art consists in its concealment).

Unity, truth, charity.

Motto of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York, USA.

1. Truthful, honest.
2. Accurate; precise.

1. The truth, accuracy, or precision of something.
2. The truthfulness or honesty of a person.
3. A truth or true statement.
4. The quality or character in persons of speaking or stating the truth; habitual observance of the truth; truthfulness, veraciousness.

1. The decision of a jury in a civil or criminal cause upon an issue which has been submitted to their judgement.
2. A judgment given by some body or authority acting as, or likened to, a jury.
3. A decision or opinion pronounced or expressed about some matter or subject; a finding, conclusion, or judgment.

A verdict is etymologically a "true saying" or a "true statement". It was evolved from verdit, the Anglo-Norman variant of Old French veirdit.

This was a compound formed from veir "true" (a descendant of Latin verum and relative of English very) and dit "saying, speech", which came from Latin dictum. The partial Latinization of verdit to verdict is said to have taken place in the 16th century.

1. Telling the truth.
2. Corresponding to facts or to reality, and therefore genuine or real.

1. The establishment of the truth or correctness of something by investigation or evidence.
2. The evidence that proves something true or correct.
3. In law, an affidavit swearing to the accuracy of a pleading.

The view that every meaningful proposition is capable of being shown to be true or false.