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[A. S. treówdhu, from treówe = true (q.v.); Icel. tryggdh. Truth and troth are doublets.] 1. The quality or state of being true; truene ; as (1) Conformity to facts or reality, as of statements to facts, words to thoughts, motives or actions to profe ions; exact accordance with what is, has been, or shall be. "Those propositions are true, which expre things as they are; or, truth is the conformity of those words or signs, by which things are exprest, to the things themselves."- Wollaston : Religion of Nature , § 1. (2) The quality or state of being made or constructed true or exact; exact adherence to a model; accuracy of adjustment; exactne . Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, v. try ments; fidelity; constancy. "I will follow thee with truth and loyalty," Shakesp.: As You Like It , ii. 3. *(7) The state or quality of not being counterfeited, adulterated, or spurious; purity, genuine ne . "She having the truth of honor in her."- Shakesp .: Measure for Measure, iii. 1. 2. That which is true, as (1) Fact, reality, verity; the opposite to falsehood. "For thys cause was I borne, and for thys cause came I into the worlde, that I shoulde beare wytne e vnto the treuthe." -John xviii. 38. (1551.) (2) That which conforms to fact or reality; the real or true state of things. "Though truth and falsehood belong, in propriety of speech, only to propositions; yet ideas are oftentimes termed true or false alse (as what w words are there that are not used with great latitude, and with some deviation from their strict and proper signification?)"-Locke: Human Understand., bk. íi., ch. xxx i. (3) A verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like. (4) True religion; the doctrines of the gospel. "The law was given by Moses; but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." -John i. 17. (1) In truth : In reality, in fact, in sincerity. " In truth , sir, and she is pretty."-Shakesp.: Merry Wives, i. 4. (2) Of a truth , For a truth : In reality; for certain. "I vnderstande ye purpose to go to Hanybout: sir, knowe for trouth, the towne and the castell ar of suche strength that they be nat easy to wynne."- Berners : Frois. sart, Cronycle, vol. i., ch. lxv. *(3) To do truth : To practice what God commands. =to rub, to thresh corn; Prov. triar to choose; tri a choice; Ital. tritare to bruise, to grind or thresh corn.] (TRITE, TRITURATE.] A. Transitive : *1. To separate, as that which is good from what is bad; to sift or pick out. (Followed by out .) "The wylde corne, beinge in shape and greatne e lyke to the good, if they be mengled, with great difficultie wyll be tryed out."- Elyot : Governor, bk. ii., cà xiv. 2. To purify, to a ay; to refine, as metals. "The fire seven times tried this; Seven times tried that judgment is." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 9. 3. To examine; to make experiment on; to test, to prove. "Thou think est me as far in the devil's book as thou and Falstaff for obstinacy and persistency; let the end try the man." -Shakesp .: Henry IV ., Pt . II . , ii. 2. 4. To put to a trial or test; to subject to trial. "His situation was one which must have severely tried the firmest nerves." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. 5. To prove by a test; to compare with a standard; as, to try weights and measures. 6. To act upon as a test; to prove by severe trial. "By faith Abraham, when he was tried , offered up Isaac; and he that received the promises offered up his only begotten son."- Hebrews xi. 17. 7. To strain; as, to try the eyes or muscles. 8. To examine; to inquire into in any manner. "That's a question, how shall we try it?" Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, v. 9. Spec., to examine judicially; to subject to the examination and decision or sentence of a judicial tribunal. "Guiltier than him they try." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , ii. L 10. To bring to a decision; to settle, to decide. "Nicanor durst not try the matter by the sword." "He that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds 2 Maccabees , xiv. 18. may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."- John iii. 21. truth-lover, subst . One devoted to the truth. (Tennyson: Ode on Death of Wellington , 189.) +truth-teller, subst . One who tells the truth. (Specif., with the def. art. applied to King Alfred the Great.) "Here Alfred the Truth -teller Suddenly closed his book." *truth, v . t . [TRUTH, s.) To affirm or declare as true; to declare. "Well, I have lived in ignorance; the ancients Who chatted of the golden age, feigned trifles. Had they dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven." Ford: Fancies , ii. 2.