adv. [ F. certes, for à certes, fr. L. certus. See Certain. ] Certainly; in truth; verily. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Certes it great pity was to see
Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]
The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
The very deferring [ of his execution ] shall increase and ascertain the condemnation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]
The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That may be ascertained. --
n. One who ascertains. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. [ 1913 Webster ]
The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. certain, fr. (assumed) LL. certanus, fr. L. certus determined, fixed, certain, orig. p. p. of cernere to perceive, decide, determine; akin to Gr. &unr_; to decide, separate, and to E. concern, critic, crime, riddle a sieve, rinse, v. ]
To make her certain of the sad event. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
I myself am certain of you. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]
However, I with thee have fixed my lot,
Certain to undergo like doom. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Dan. ii. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]
Virtue that directs our ways
Through certain dangers to uncertain praise. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper. Mead. [ 1913 Webster ]
The people go out and gather a certain rate every day. Ex. xvi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]
It came to pass when he was in a certain city. Luke. v. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]
About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
For certain,
Of a certain,
n.
adv. Certainly. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Without doubt or question; unquestionably. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Certainty. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]
Certainties are uninteresting and sating. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Of a certainty,
n. a natural family of birds cosisting of several species of creepers, such as Certhia americana, the tree creeper.
adj.
n. [ F. certificat, fr. LL. certificatus made certain, p. p. of certificare. See tify. ]
Trial by certificate,
v. t.
adj. officially documented; -- of people.
n. [ L. certificatio: cf. F. certification. ] The act of certifying. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. a check drawn on a bank and bearing marks from that bank guaranteeing that funds have been reserved for payment. [ PJC ]
n. One who certifies or assures. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. Ezra iv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]
The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
Certified check,
n. [ So named from the emphatic word certiorari in the Latin form of the writ, which read certiorar volumus we wish to be certified. ] (Law) A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ A certiorari is the correct process to remove the proceedings of a court in which cases are tried in a manner different from the course of the common law, as of county commissioners. It is also used as an auxiliary process in order to obtain a full return to some other process. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. certitudo, fr. L. certus: cf. F. certitude. See Certain. ] Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
It was concerted to begin the siege in March. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]
A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans. [ 1913 Webster ]
The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. Bp. Burnet [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. concert, It. concerto, conserto, fr. concertare. See Concert, v. t. ]
All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
Let us in concert to the season sing. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
Visit by night your lady's chamber window
With some sweet concert. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Concert pitch.
n. [ It., orig p. pr. of concertare to form or perform a concert. See Concert. ] (Mus.) A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively;
n. [ L. concertatio. ] Strife; contention. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. concertativus. ] Contentious; quarrelsome. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on;
Concerted piece (Mus.),
n. [ From It. concerto a concert. ] A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Concertina. ] (Mus.) A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the
n. Act of concerting; adjustment. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ G. ] (Mus.) The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
. An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ L. decertatio, fr. decertare, decertatum; de- + certare to contend. ] Contest for mastery; contention; strife. [ R. ] Arnway. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.
n. Want of concert; disagreement. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. hard to deal with; causing uncertainty or confusion about how to act or react.
n. The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation. [ R. ] State Trials (1794). [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. in- not + certain: cf. F. incertain, L. incertus. See Certain. ] Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. --
Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
n. Uncertainty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. incertitude, LL. incertitudo, fr. L. incertus. See Incertain. ] Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt. [ 1913 Webster ]
The incertitude and instability of this life. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖a. Doubtful; not of definite form. [ 1913 Webster ]
Opus incertum (Anc. Arch.),
n. [ OE. lacerte. See Lacertus. ] A muscle of the human body. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. lacertus the arm. ] A fathom. [ Obs. ] Domesday Book. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. a lizard. See Lizard. ]
☞ Formerly it included nearly all the known lizards. It is now restricted to certain diurnal Old World species, like the green lizard (Lacerta viridis) and the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis), of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. lacertien. ] (Zool.) Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the
v. t.
When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]
The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
The very deferring [ of his execution ] shall increase and ascertain the condemnation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]
The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That may be ascertained. --
n. One who ascertains. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. [ 1913 Webster ]
The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. certain, fr. (assumed) LL. certanus, fr. L. certus determined, fixed, certain, orig. p. p. of cernere to perceive, decide, determine; akin to Gr. &unr_; to decide, separate, and to E. concern, critic, crime, riddle a sieve, rinse, v. ]
To make her certain of the sad event. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
I myself am certain of you. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]
However, I with thee have fixed my lot,
Certain to undergo like doom. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Dan. ii. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]
Virtue that directs our ways
Through certain dangers to uncertain praise. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper. Mead. [ 1913 Webster ]
The people go out and gather a certain rate every day. Ex. xvi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]
It came to pass when he was in a certain city. Luke. v. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]
About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
For certain,
Of a certain,
n.
adv. Certainly. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Without doubt or question; unquestionably. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Certainty. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]
Certainties are uninteresting and sating. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Of a certainty,
adv. [ F. certes, for à certes, fr. L. certus. See Certain. ] Certainly; in truth; verily. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Certes it great pity was to see
Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a natural family of birds cosisting of several species of creepers, such as Certhia americana, the tree creeper.
adj.
n. [ F. certificat, fr. LL. certificatus made certain, p. p. of certificare. See tify. ]
Trial by certificate,
v. t.
adj. officially documented; -- of people.
n. [ L. certificatio: cf. F. certification. ] The act of certifying. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. a check drawn on a bank and bearing marks from that bank guaranteeing that funds have been reserved for payment. [ PJC ]
n. One who certifies or assures. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. Ezra iv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]
The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
Certified check,
n. [ So named from the emphatic word certiorari in the Latin form of the writ, which read certiorar volumus we wish to be certified. ] (Law) A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ A certiorari is the correct process to remove the proceedings of a court in which cases are tried in a manner different from the course of the common law, as of county commissioners. It is also used as an auxiliary process in order to obtain a full return to some other process. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. certitudo, fr. L. certus: cf. F. certitude. See Certain. ] Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
It was concerted to begin the siege in March. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]
A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans. [ 1913 Webster ]
The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. Bp. Burnet [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. concert, It. concerto, conserto, fr. concertare. See Concert, v. t. ]
All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
Let us in concert to the season sing. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
Visit by night your lady's chamber window
With some sweet concert. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Concert pitch.
n. [ It., orig p. pr. of concertare to form or perform a concert. See Concert. ] (Mus.) A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively;
n. [ L. concertatio. ] Strife; contention. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. concertativus. ] Contentious; quarrelsome. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on;
Concerted piece (Mus.),
n. [ From It. concerto a concert. ] A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Concertina. ] (Mus.) A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the
n. Act of concerting; adjustment. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ G. ] (Mus.) The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
. An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ L. decertatio, fr. decertare, decertatum; de- + certare to contend. ] Contest for mastery; contention; strife. [ R. ] Arnway. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.
n. Want of concert; disagreement. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. hard to deal with; causing uncertainty or confusion about how to act or react.
n. The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation. [ R. ] State Trials (1794). [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. in- not + certain: cf. F. incertain, L. incertus. See Certain. ] Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. --
Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
n. Uncertainty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. incertitude, LL. incertitudo, fr. L. incertus. See Incertain. ] Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt. [ 1913 Webster ]
The incertitude and instability of this life. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖a. Doubtful; not of definite form. [ 1913 Webster ]
Opus incertum (Anc. Arch.),
n. [ OE. lacerte. See Lacertus. ] A muscle of the human body. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. lacertus the arm. ] A fathom. [ Obs. ] Domesday Book. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. a lizard. See Lizard. ]
☞ Formerly it included nearly all the known lizards. It is now restricted to certain diurnal Old World species, like the green lizard (Lacerta viridis) and the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis), of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. lacertien. ] (Zool.) Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the
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