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/dˈɑkjəmɛnt/ /dˈɑkjumɛnt/ Listen

noun

document n.

1.

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma. (Obs.) "Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time."

2.

An example for instruction or warning. (Obs.) "They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others."

3.

An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. "Saint Luke... collected them from such documents and testimonies as he... judged to be authentic."

verb

Document v. t.

1.

To teach; to school. (Obs.) "I am finely documented by my own daughter."

2.

To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

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... felt I at last knew what Wims was and the factor that triggered his dangerous potential. For weeks afterward, under carefully controlled conditions, I was as nasty to him as I dared be. It took my most delicate judgment to avoid fatal injury but I managed to document the world's first known accident prone inducer. I call him Homo Causacadere, the fall ...

— I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon • Richard Sabia

... walked her right by a shoe- store and dived into a real estate office. What happened thereupon resided forever after in her memory as a dream. Fine gentlemen smiled at her benevolently as they talked with Martin and one another; a type-writer clicked; signatures were affixed to an imposing document; her own landlord was there, too, and affixed his signature; and when all was over and she was outside on the sidewalk, her landlord spoke to her, saying, "Well, Maria, you won't have to pay me no seven dollars and ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

... HALSBURY, delayed by a similar accident on his first appearance in the House forty years ago, systematically turned out the contents of seemingly endless pockets and eventually discovered the missing document in his hat. ...

— Punch, 1917.07.04, Vol. 153, Issue No. 1 • Various

... on all the walls proclaiming the dissolution of the National Assembly and of the Council of State, the restoration of universal suffrage, and the placing of the Department of the Seine under the state of siege. In the same way he shortly after sneaked into the "Moniateur" a false document, according to which influential parliamentary names had grouped themselves round him in ...

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