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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• 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.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.