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[ Averil, whan clothed is the mede With new grene, of lusty Veer the prime. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 157. veracious (vē-rā'shus), a. [L. verax ( verac- ), speaking truly, truthful, ver us, true, real: see very.] 1. Truthful; habitually disposed to speak truth; observant of truth. The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious. Barrow, Sermons, II. xxxiv. ( Latham.) 2. Characterized by truth; true; not false: as, a veracious account or narrative. The young ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, very mad one. will find [it] a Carlyle, Sterling, v. veraciously (ve-ra's hus-li), adv. In a veracious manner; truthfully.