ascertain
verb (used with object)
to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine.
ascertainably
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a word derived from
ascertain.
Example Sentences
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That small amount of bismuth does not ascertainably retard digestion, they discovered, after they set to work on three doctors and their wives, one dentist and one medical student.
From Time Magazine Archive
On transverse sections no difference between the olivary nuclei beyond that which occurs in healthy persons could be found; the asymmetry was ascertainably one of prominence only.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
Indeed, instead of issuing in a relativistic metaphysics of knowledge, the doctrine of relativity should issue in the recognition of the finality of knowledge in every case of ascertainably complete adaptation.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
But it is precisely to this group to which all the ascertainably insane parents of British men of genius belong.
From Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
