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ASCERTAINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discovered or determined by scientific observation
Example:
no explanation for the observed phenomena
Synonyms:
ascertained; discovered; observed
Classified under:
Similar:
determined (having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ascertain
Context examples:
It had been ascertained at the shipping offices that Browner had left aboard of the May Day, and I calculate that she is due in the Thames to-morrow night.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The article had been published, as he had ascertained at the file in the Central Reading-room, but no word could he get from the editor.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
When the contents of the letter were ascertained, John Thorpe, who had only waited its arrival to begin his journey to London, prepared to set off.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But at this juncture, Mugridge, who had lifted his head and ascertained the extent of his loss, floundered over on the deck and buried his teeth in Wolf Larsen’s leg.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Indeed, I should say it was ascertained beyond a doubt.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Private information must be individually identifiable (i.e., the identity of the subject is or may readily be ascertained by the investigator or associated with the information) in order for obtaining the information to constitute research involving human subjects.
(Human Study Subject, Food and Drug Administration)
She ascertained from me in a few words what it was all about, comforted Dora, and gradually convinced her that I was not a labourer—from my manner of stating the case I believe Dora concluded that I was a navigator, and went balancing myself up and down a plank all day with a wheelbarrow—and so brought us together in peace.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"But," I cried, surely the whole experience of the human race is not to be set aside on account of a single sketch—I had turned over the leaves and ascertained that there was nothing more in the book—a single sketch by a wandering American artist who may have done it under hashish, or in the delirium of fever, or simply in order to gratify a freakish imagination.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It appears that some little trouble was caused by a woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall then make known to you something of the history of this man, which has been ascertained for me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
