Certainty
Certainty
#474. Certainty. -- N. certainty; necessity &c. 601; certitude,
surety, assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness &c.
adj.; infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness,
unquestionableness[obs].
- gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res
judicata[Lat], ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer;
doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist[obs], Sir Oracle; ipse dixit[Lat].
- fact; positive fact, matter of fact; fait accompli[Fr].
- V. be certain &c. adj.; stand to reason.
- render certain &c. adj.; insure, ensure, assure; clinch, make sure;
determine, decide, set at rest, " make assurance double sure " [Macbeth];
know &c. (believe) 484.
- dogmatize, lay down the law.
- Adj. certain, sure, assured &c. v.; solid, well-founded.
- unqualified, absolute, positive, determinate, definite, clear,
unequivocal, categorical, unmistakable, decisive, decided, ascertained.
- inevitable, unavoidable, avoidless[obs]; ineluctable.
- unerring, infallible; unchangeable &c. 150; to be depended on,
trustworthy, reliable, bound.
- unimpeachable, undeniable, unquestionable; indisputable,
incontestable, incontrovertible, indubitable; irrefutable &c. (proven) 478;
conclusive, without power of appeal.
- indubious[obs]; without doubt, beyond a doubt, without a shade or
shadow of doubt, without question, beyond question; past dispute; clear as
day; beyond all question, beyond all dispute; undoubted, uncontested,
unquestioned, undisputed; questionless[obs], doubtless.
- authoritative, authentic, official.
- sure as fate, sure as death and taxes, sure as a gun.
- evident, self-evident, axiomatic; clear, clear as day, clear as the
sun at noonday.
- Adv. certainly &c. adj.; for certain, certes[Lat], sure, no doubt,
doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto[Lat], sure enough, to be sure,
of course, as a matter of course , a coup sur, to a certainty; in truth &c.
(truly) 494; at any rate, at all events; without fail; coute que coute[Fr],
coute qu'il coute[Fr]; whatever may happen, if the worst come to the worst;
come what may, happen what may, come what will; sink or swim; rain or
shine.
- Phr. cela va sans dire[Fr]; there is -no question, - not a shadow of
doubt; the die is cast &c. (necessity) 601; " facts are stubborn things "
[Smollett].