Definition of: document

(dok′yə·mənt) noun
1. An original piece of written or printed matter conveying authoritative information or evidence.
2. One of the several papers affixed to a documentary bill and testifying to or effecting the transfer of goods, as a bill of lading, certificate of insurance, etc.
3. A documentary.
4. Obs. A cautionary example.
5. Obs. Instruction.
6. Obs. Evidence. See synonyms under RECORD.
—v.t.
1. To furnish with documents.
2. To prove by documentary evidence.
3. To supply with references and notes to authoritative material: to document a text. [<OF <L documentum a lesson <docere teach]
—doc′u·men′tal adjective