Word Meanings - ASCERTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To render certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise. When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream
Additional info about word: ASCERTAIN
1. To render certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise. When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. 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. 2. To make certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine. The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth. Hooker. The very deferring shall increase and ascertain the condemnation. Jer. Taylor. The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. Smollett. The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon. 3. To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal. He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. Macaulay.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASCERTAIN)
- Discover
- Find
- invent
- descry
- disclose
- unearth
- ferret out
- ascertain
- discern
- make known
- detect
- betray
- indicate
- manifest
- Meet
- confront
- experience
- perceive
- discover
- furnish
- Prove
- assay
- test
- establish
- demonstrate
- argue
- show
- confirm
- examine
- substantiate
- make trial of
- verify
- Tell
- Mention
- number
- enumerate
- count
- recount
- utter
- recite
- state
- narrate
- publish
- divulge
- promulgate
- acquaint
- teach
- inform
- explain
- communicate
- report
- rehearse
- judge
- discriminate
- decide
- describe
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASCERTAIN)
- Evade
- escape
- miss
- lose
- Silence
- hush
- suppress
- misreport
- misrepresent
- miarelate
- falsify
- Suppress
- repress
- suppose
- imply
- deny
- contradict
- retract
- Recal
- stifle
- check
- swallow
Related words: (words related to ASCERTAIN)
- PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - INVENTIVE
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n. - CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - IMPLY
1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is - COUNTERFLEURY
Counterflory. - TEACHER
1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. - COUNTERVIEW
1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - CONTRADICTABLE
Capable of being contradicting. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - STIFLED
Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne. - DISCERNANCE
Discernment. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - UNUTTERABLE
Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - MISJUDGE
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue. - MUTTERER
One who mutters.