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Ascertainment

Ascertainment \As`cer*tain"ment\, n. The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

The positive ascertainment of its limits.
--Burke.

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ascertainment

n. The act of ascertaining.

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And, then, it was just His attainment of the most perfect humility, and then His absolute ascertainment of the same, that enabled Him to say: Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me.

The northern waters of the Missouri are less to be enquired after, because they have been ascertained to a considerable degree, and are still in a course of ascertainment by English traders & travellers.

The analysis of the performance of funcĀ­tions concerns the causes and conditions for the ascertainment of phenomena, their establishment as being existent, or their activities.

He tells us that the positive ascertainment of its limits, and its security from invasion, were among the causes for which civil society itself has been instituted.

But that which interested me most in reckoning up their divisions of time was the ascertainment of the average duration of life amongst them.