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Word Meanings - CERTIFICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. 2. A written declaration legally authenticated. Trial by certificate, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point

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1. A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. 2. A written declaration legally authenticated. Trial by certificate, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; as, when the issue is whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. Blackstone.

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  • TRIALITY
    Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • TRUTHY
    Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
  • TESTIMONY
    The two tables of the law. Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Ex. xxv. 16. 6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps. xix. Syn. -- Proof; evidence;
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • POINTAL
    The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
  • PERSONATE
    To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
  • POINTED
    1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • POINT ALPHABET
    An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
  • POINTSMAN
    A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
  • TRUTHLESS
    Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
  • PROPERLY
    1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
  • PROPERNESS
    1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
  • POINTLESS
    Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
  • RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
    An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • IMPROPERLY
    In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
  • IMPROPERATION
    The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
  • TROIS POINT
    The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
  • REAPPOINT
    To appoint again.
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • INTERPOINT
    To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.

 

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