1to assure, make certain (of the correctness of):
(
1307
)
par quei home purra de ore estre certé, ne en autre manere poet la court de ceo asserter
33-35 Ed I 489
(
1309
)
la vewe par quele il porrreit estre certé de la demaunde
Ed II ii 142
2to certify:
(
1308-09
)
com en certaunt
(var. ascertant) la curt de lour estat
Ed II i 171
1to assure oneself:
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiim
)
envers els aprimat Pur noveles oir, dunt ele se certat
(O) 4894
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