Document

dok′ū-ment, n. a paper containing information or the proof of anything.— v.t. to furnish with documents: to support or prove by documents.— adjs. Document′al , Document′ary , relating to or found in documents.— n. Documentā′tion , preparation or use of documentary evidence and authorities—used in realistic fiction by the school of Zola of faithful reproduction of the records, real or supposed, of actual lives (the so-called document huma in ).— Documentary hypothesis , the hypothesis that the Pent a teuch consists of two or more originally distinct documents. [Fr.,—L. documentum — docēre , to teach.]