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/sərtˈɪfɪkət/ Listen

noun

Certificate n.

1.

A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.

2.

A written declaration legally authenticated.

Trial by certificate, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; as, when the issue is whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal.

verb

Certificate v. t. (past & past part. certificated; pres. part. certificating)

1.

To verify or vouch for by certificate.

2.

To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.

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Etymology of 'Certificate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Certificate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lord made him stablemaster of the heavenly steeds. Then the servants of the Lord of the Heavens told him he should give thanks for the grace bestowed on him. Sun Wu Kung called out aloud: "Thanks to command!" took possession of his certificate of appointment, and went to the stables in order to enter upon ...

— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various

... claims made by Pauthier on behalf of this class of MSS. (on the first three of which his Text is formed) rest mainly upon the kind of certificate which two of them bear regarding the presentation of a copy by Marco Polo to Thibault de Cepoy, which we have already quoted (supra p. 69). This certificate is held by Pauthier to imply that the original of the copies ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... Postmaster of Penzance, says, "I can testify that I saw signals which purported to have passed over the cable, printed in plain characters on the Morse slip; and on the faith of these signals the contractors issued their certificate, and the Company took over the cable. Needless to say, the whole thing was a ruse. The ruptured cable lay dead and idle at the bottom of the Channel—lost past all recovery." It was easy to explain afterwards that the fracture took place naturally; ...

— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon

... river darkly. But rudeness is not argument. Rather shall we say that the power to work a good undershot wheel, without being dammed up all night in a pond, and leaving a tidy back-stream to spare at the bottom of the orchard, is a fair certificate of riverhood. If so, many Devonshire streams attain that rank within five miles of their spring; aye, and rapidly add to it. At every turn they gather aid, from ash-clad dingle and aldered meadow, mossy rock and ferny wall, hedge-trough roofed with bramble netting, where the ...

— Crocker's Hole - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore

... Ferdinand studied philosophy, and at his death was director of the Orphanage founded by Froebel in Burgdorf; Wilhelm, who showed great talent, and was his uncle's favourite nephew, died early through the consequences of an accident, just after receiving his "leaving certificate" ...

— Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel • Friedrich Froebel

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