Word Meanings - PRETERITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.

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• PRETERIT
  Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past. 2. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa. Lowell.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• PRETERITIVE
  Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• PRETERITION
  A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis. (more info) 1. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being
• CERTAIN
  certus determined, fixed, certain, orig. p. p. of cernere to perceive, decide, determine; akin to Gr. concern, critic, crime, 1. Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. To make her certain of the sad event. Dryden. I
• CERTAINLY
  Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
• PRETERITENESS
  See PRETERITNESS
• PRETERITNESS
  The quality or state of being past. Bentley. Lowell.
• CHIEFLY
  1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where
• PRETERITE
  See PRETERIT
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• INCERTAIN
  Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv. Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne.
• ASCERTAINER
  One who ascertains.
• INCERTAINTY
  Uncertainty. Shak.
• UNCERTAIN
  1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer. Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for. Tillotson. 2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable;
• 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