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ascertainment|æsəˈteɪnmənt|
[f. ascertain v. + -ment; cf. OF. acertenement.]
The process or result of ascertaining.
1. Reduction to certainty; exact determination, limitation, settlement. arch.
1657Cromwell Sp. 21 Apr. (1871) V. 37 That a period might be put, and some ascertainment made, and a time fixed. 1780Burke Sp. Econ. Ref. Wks. 1842 I. 255 For the ascertainment and security of tenant and other rights. 1848Arnould Law Mar. Insur. (1866) I. i. i. 13 Essential to the very notion of an indemnity is the ascertainment of the perils insured against.
2. Determination as the result of investigation; finding out, discovery.
1799Sir J. Mackintosh Bacon & Locke (1846) I. 329 Such facts bound our researches..and the ascertainment of them is the utmost possible attainment of Science. 1843Mill Logic iii. i. §2 The ascertainment of these angular distances. 1863Huxley Man's Place Nat. ii. 57 The question of questions for mankind..is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature. |