ˈverifying, vbl. n.
[f. verify v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. in various senses; the proving of something; verification. Cf. verifier 2 b.
| a 1325 MS. Rawl. B. 520 fol. 47 b, Wan ha beȝ icleped to uerefihinge, þoru þat þulke i-voched weren in present. c 1450 Mirk's Festial 23 In verefiyng of thys thyng þe fyrst masse..begynnyth thus. 1561–2 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 196 Sik richtis..and documentis as thai will use for verefying of thair content. 1581 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 37 Zopirus..fayned himselfe in extreame disgrace of his King: for verifying of which, he caused his own nose and eares to be cut off. 1598 Florio, Verificatione, a verifying, an approouing, an auerring. 1632 Sir R. Le Grys tr. Velleius Paterc. 168 Catullus second to none in verifying of the worke which he tooke in hand. a 1653 Binning Serm. (1845) 480 For verifying whereof, We appeal to the Knowledge of some Noblemen and Ministers. 1670 Milton Hist. Eng. ii. 79 The verifying of that true sentence, the first shall be last. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Verification, a verifying, or proving. 1932 Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. XCII. 700 In commercial practice punching is usually verified by a special verifying punch. 1954, 1965 [see keypunching vbl. n. sv. keypunch v.]. 1968 Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 207/1 Four-fifths of the costs of linking a record by computer arise in preparation of the data—i.e., abstraction, classification and coding, card or tape punching and verifying. 1973 F. R. Crawford Business Systems with Punched Card Data Processing v. 89 Proper design of documents and card forms is essential for accurate, efficient card punching and verifying. |