Crossword clues for certify
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Notify \No"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Notified; p. pr. & vb. n. Notifying.] [F. notifier, L. notificare; notus known (p. p. of noscere to known) + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Know, and -fy.]
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To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.
No law can bind till it be notified or promulged.
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To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.
The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has approved and signed the act.
--Journal of the Senate, U. S.Note: This application of notify has been condemned; but it is in constant good use in the United States, and in perfect accordance with the use of certify.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "to declare the truth of," also "to vouch for or confirm" (an official record, etc.), from Old French certefiier "make certain, witness the truth of" (12c.), from Late Latin certificare "to certify, to make certain," from Latin certus (see certain) + root of facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Also used in Middle English in broader senses of "inform, give notice; instruct, to direct; to designate." Related: Certified; certifying. Certified public accountant attested from 1896.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) to attest to as the truth or meeting a standard
WordNet
v. provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness" [syn: attest, manifest, demonstrate, evidence]
guarantee payment on; of checks
authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: license, licence] [ant: decertify]
guarantee as meeting a certain standard; "certified grade AAA meat" [syn: endorse, indorse]
declare legally insane
[also: certified]
Wikipedia
Certify (foaled 12 March 2010) is an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. In her first season of racing, which began in July 2012 she won all four of her races including the Group One Fillies' Mile and ended the British season as one of the year's most highly rated two-year-old fillies. She was regarded as a leading contender for the following year's classics but was suspended from racing after failing a drug test in April 2013.
Usage examples of "certify".
There was a sign on the wall certifying that one Geneva Zuri was licensed to practice audiology in the state of Virginia.
Fritz is a certified moron who calls himself a private dick because he thinks it wows the chicks, and Barani was a beat cop who got busted for taking a bribe.
Even Bill Birch at the Smithsonian had trouble certifying the California bees as genuine Africans.
After all, he was at least a little bit of a mage, as well as a certified bonesetter and herb-Healer, and Selenay of Valdemar had decreed that Valdemar still needed mages.
A certified copy, anyway, and the findings of the Denazification Court.
American candidate, a valid Vietnamese nationalist whose Francophobia absolved him of any taint of colonialism and whose approval by Cardinal Spellman certified his anti-Communism.
The letter was written originally in Guarani, and a certified translation of it exists at Simancas, Legajo 7,385, folio 13.
THE consideration of the effect of the use of ink upon civilization from primitive times to the present, as we have seen, offers a most suggestive field and certifies to the importance of the manufacture of honest inks as necessary to the future enlightenment of society.
Marcel would certify Kellie Collier as fully qualified for her own command.
I suppose I shall not have the chance in these degenerate days to see any long-pig eaten, but at least I am already the possessor of a duly certified Marquesan calabash, oblong in shape, curiously carved, over a century old, from which has been drunk the blood of two shipmasters.
In that apartment, I had been the subject matter expert, and had not only done my job but also certified to myself that I was ready to go on to the next level of medicolegal investigation, to become an MLI-II.
They found a public notary there who said he would certify a document that said that Orest Mercator spent so many days incarcerated with these venomous reptiles blah blah blah.
Zoyd was both a certified pizzamaniac and a cheapskate, but not once had he ever hustled Prairie for one nepotistic slice of the Bodhi Dharma product.
Each one is a certified historical reenactor capable of providing you with hours of informative conversation.
A certified graphoanalyst, or handwriting expert, for twenty-five years, Samas, who is also a psychotherapist, had completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Columbia University and once served as the president of the New York chapter of the International Graphoanalysis Society.