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Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.
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(RQ:Marryat Peter Simple) I think, nay, I may say that I'm sartain, we'll have a hurricane afore morning. It's not the first time I've cruised in these latitudes.
Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
(RQ:KJV)the dreame ''is'' certaine, and the interpretation thereof ſure.
Sure to happen, inevitable; assured.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2 Q1)death (as the Pſalmiſt ſaith) is certaine to all, all ſhall die.
(RQ:Dryden Aureng-zebe)
Unfailing; infallible.
(quote-book)
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(RQ:KJV) vnto Moſes, Behold, I will raine bread from heauen for you: and the people ſhall goe out, and gather a certaine rate euery day, that I may proue them, whether they will walke in my Law, or no.
Particular and definite, but unspecified or unnamed; (n-g).
''Every wine has a certain distinctive character which sets it apart from all others.''
''Each morning, she would see a certain man rush past her window on his way to work.''
(RQ:KJV)
(RQ:Macaulay Goldsmith)
''Looking inside the cover, they learned that the book had once belonged to a certain R. Jones.''
Used before the name of someone famous that people are expected to know.
''Since the last British government to make such a proposal was that of a certain Margaret Thatcher, it might not seem unreasonable.''
Determined; resolved.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
Having been determined but not specified.
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)
Unnamed or undescribed members (of).
(RQ:King James Version)certaine of the Jewes banded together(..)
(l), for certain, indubitably
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(l); certainty
(l): a determined but unspecified amount of ; some
(l); sure