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.
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
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
America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market. Robert Pozen
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
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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