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Certify

verb

(past & past part. certified; pres. part. certifying)

Provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes. Synonyms: attest, demonstrate, evidence, manifest. "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication" , "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness"

Guarantee payment on; of checks.

Authorize officially. Synonyms: licence, license.

Guarantee as meeting a certain standard. Synonyms: endorse, indorse.

Declare legally insane.

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"Certify" Quotes from Famous Books

... a green color issued to Tommy once a week. The contents will not be censored regimentally, but are liable to censor at the base. On the outside of envelope appears the following certificate, which Tommy must sign: "I certify on my honor that the contents of this envelope refer to nothing but private and family matters." After signing this certificate Tommy immediately writes about everything but ...

— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey

... swept through Pierre also. He now understood that Cardinal Boccanera who religiously and passionately hated Leo XIII; he saw him in the depths of his black palace, waiting and watching for the Pope's death, that death which as Camerlingo he must officially certify. How feverishly he must wait, how impatiently he must desire the advent of the hour, when with his little silver hammer he would deal the three symbolic taps on the skull of Leo XIII, while the latter lay cold and ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... knew God directly at the first. And be it said thoughtfully, every man has enough of revelation and of inner light to lead him back to God. A man's choice in this life is his choice always. Any student of the ordinary working of man's mind can certify that. Whatever sort of being a man deliberately, persistently chooses to be here and now, he will be always. The only change possible in the after-life will be in the degree. Never in ...

— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon

... but utterly failed, as the jury could not agree. The rules of the Highland Society are good so far as they go—viz., that unless the owner of cows that have not had a calf in the year of the exhibition, and of the two-year-old heifers that have been awarded prizes, can certify that the animals have had a calf—the cows in four months and the heifers in nine after the exhibition—the money prize will be withheld. But this does not cover the difficulty, as the prize-money is of secondary importance to the majority of exhibitors—being ...

— Cattle and Cattle-breeders • William M'Combie

... "This is to certify that we have this day bought the sixty acres of land adjoining Brookside Farm, on the east, for the sum of Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1800), to be held in trust for Robert Williams, and to be turned over to him whenever he wishes to take possession. The sum of ...

— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson

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