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True (tr&usuml_;), a. [Compar. Truer (tr&usuml_;"&etilde_;r); superl. Truest.] [OE. trewe, AS. treówe faithful, true, from treów fidelity, faith, troth; akin to OFries. triuwe, adj., treuwa, n., OS. triuwi, adj., trewa, n., D. trouw, adj. & n., G. treu, adj., treue, n., OHG. gitriuwi, adj., triuwa, n., Icel. tryggr, adj., Dan. tro, adj. & n., Sw. trogen, adj., tro, n., Goth. triggws, adj., triggwa, n., trauan to trust, OPruss druwis faith. Cf. Trow, Trust, Truth.]
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1. Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
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2. Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
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Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time.
Sir W. Scott.
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3. Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.
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Thy so true,
So faithful, love unequaled.
Milton.
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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie.
Herbert.
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4. Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
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The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John i. 9.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
Pope.
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5. (Biol.) Genuine; real; not deviating from the essential characters of a class; as, a lizard is a true reptile; a whale is a true, but not a typical, mammal.
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&hand_; True is sometimes used elliptically for It is true.
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Out of true, varying from correct mechanical form, alignment, adjustment, etc.; -- said of a wall that is not perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in the same plane, and the like. [Colloq.] -- A true bill (Law), a bill of indictment which is returned by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges to be true. -- True time. See under Time.
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True, adv. In accordance with truth; truly. Shak.
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