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Certain   /sˈərtən/   Listen
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.



noun
Certain  n.  
1.
Certainty. (Obs.)
2.
A certain number or quantity. (Obs.)



adverb
Certain  adv.  Certainly. (Obs.)






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"Certain" Quotes from Famous Books



... perhaps it was better. I got here a little before eight o'clock. All was clean and bright waiting for me. Papa and the servants were well; and all received me with an affection which should have consoled. The dogs seemed in strange ecstasy. I am certain they regarded me as the harbinger of others. The dumb creatures thought that as I was returned, those who had been so long absent were not ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... [Footnote 13: A certain amount of British folk-lore was brought back to Greece, according to Plutarch ('De defect. orac.' 2), by the geographer Demetrias of Tarsus about this time. He refers to the cavern of sleeping heroes, so familiar in our ...
— Early Britain--Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare

... story is the most naive form of the mystery story. It may contain a certain element of the supernatural—be tinged with mysticism—but its motive and the revelation thereof must be frankly materialistic—of the earth, earthy. In this respect it is very closely allied to the detective story. The model riddle ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various

... had returned; some had been wounded, and many had done brave deeds, but Tom's action had laid hold of the imagination of the people. To discover a German spy in Waterman, whom many in the town knew; to bring him to justice; to risk his life in order to render his country a service; to face almost certain death that he might obtain the plans which had been intended to help the enemy, ...
— Tommy • Joseph Hocking

... into the daylight of her knowledge, such a reaction of relief took place as, operating along with his deep natural humour and the comical circumstance of the case, gave him an ease and freedom of communication which he had never before enjoyed with her. Likewise there was a certain courage in the boy which, if his own natural disposition had not been so quiet that he felt the negations of her rule the less, might have resulted in underhand doings of a very different kind, possibly, ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald


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