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adjective

Certain adj.

1.

Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. "To make her certain of the sad event." "I myself am certain of you."

2.

Determined; resolved; used with an infinitive. "However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom."

3.

Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. "The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."

4.

Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. "Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise." "Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all."

5.

Unfailing; infallible. "I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper."

6.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. "The people go out and gather a certain rate every day."

7.

Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons. "It came to pass when he was in a certain city." "About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum."

For certain, assuredly.

Of a certain, certainly.

Synonyms: Bound; sure; true; undeniable; unquestionable; undoubted; plain; indubitable; indisputable; incontrovertible; unhesitating; undoubting; fixed; stated.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"For certain" Quotes from Famous Books

... had a very remarkable man for their clergyman,—a man with a brain as nicely adjusted for certain mechanical processes as Babbage's calculating machine. The commentary of the laymen on the preaching and practising of Jonathan Edwards was, that, after twenty-three years of endurance, they turned him out by a vote of twenty to one, and passed a resolve that ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various

... got the impression that the Ordnance were surprisingly efficient and would be very prompt in giving us what we wanted. But I gradually discovered that they really possessed very little of what they first promised me, and that nothing was known for certain as to when further stores would arrive. I telephoned to Ferrara that the immediate prospects were poor, and was told in reply to wait three or four days and see how much turned up. Having pestered various Ordnance officers to ...

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