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        "From Middle English certeyn, certein, certain, borrowed from Old French certain, from a Vulgar Latin unattested form *certānus, extended form of Latin certus (“fixed, resolved, certain”), of the same origin as cretus, past participle of cernere (“to separate, perceive, decide”). Displaced native Middle English wis, iwis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)) and alternative Middle English spelling sertane (“some, certain”)."
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              "mean": "Sure, positive, not doubting.\nI was certain of my decision.\nSpain is now certain of a place in the finals.\n1833,  ,  chapter VIII, in  Peter Simple. , volume III, London: Saunders and Otley, , published 1834, →OCLC, page 113:  I think, nay, I may say that I'm sartain, we'll have a hurricane afore morning. It's not the first time I've cruised in these latitudes."
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              "mean": "(obsolete) Determined; resolved.\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book VIII”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 952–953:However I with thee have fixt my Lot,  Certain to undergoe like doom"
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              "mean": "Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Daniel 2:45, column 1: the dreame is certaine, and the interpretation thereof ſure."
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              "mean": "Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.\nBankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.\nc. 1596–1599 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, , quarto edition, London:    V S for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, : death (as the Pſalmiſt ſaith) is certaine to all, all ſhall die.\n1675,  John Dryden,  Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. , London:    T N for Henry Herringman, , published 1676, →OCLC, Act II, page 29:How vain is Virtue which directs our ways  Through certain danger to uncertain praiſe!"
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              "mean": "Unfailing; infallible.\n1702, Richard Mead, Mechanical Account of Poisons\nI have often wished, that I knew so certain a remedy in any other disease"
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              "mean": "Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Exodus 16:4, column 1:Then ſaid the Lord vnto Moſes, Behold, I will raine bread from heauen for you: and the people ſhall goe out, and gather a certaine rate euery day, that I may proue them, whether they will walke in my Law, or no."
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              "mean": "Known but not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons; see also \"one\".\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Luke 5:12, column 1:And it came to paſſe, when he was in a certaine citie \n1856 February​,   Macaulay,  “Oliver Goldsmith ”, in T F E, editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC, page 365:About everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain natural grace and decorum"
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              "mean": "Having been determined but not specified.\nCertain people are good at running.\n1918,  W B Maxwell,  chapter V, in  The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 26:One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly-appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”"
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              "mean": "(with of) Unnamed or undescribed members (of).\nShe mentioned a series of contracts, of which certain are not cited.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Acts 23:12, column 2: certaine of the Jewes banded together"
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              "mean": "certain at OneLook Dictionary Search\ncertain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.  C. Merriam, 1913\ncertain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911"
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