Definition of Ascertain

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Ascertain

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine.

To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.

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Ascertain Quotations

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Bobby Scott

Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.
Frank Carlucci

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.
Thomas Sydenham

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
Bram Fischer

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.
Henry M. Morris

Ascertain Translations

ascertain in Dutch is constateren, vaststellen, bevinden
ascertain in Finnish is todeta
ascertain in French is constater
ascertain in German is feststellen, feststellen, ermitteln, ermitteln
ascertain in Italian is accertare, verificare
ascertain in Latin is reperio
ascertain in Norwegian is finne ut
ascertain in Portuguese is verifique

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