Definitions
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- adverb In a way that can be
ascertained .
Etymologies
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Examples
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According to Larry Laudan (1983, 121), it “has the untoward consequence of countenancing as ˜scientific™ every crank claim which makes ascertainably false assertions”.
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The figures of Catholic population given above include only those who are ascertainably members of the Church -- all converts being subjected to careful tests and instruction before baptism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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But it is precisely to this group to which all the ascertainably insane parents of British men of genius belong.
Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
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The fact being (very ascertainably by anyone who will take the trouble to examine the matter), that there is a cultivated Art among all great nations, inevitably necessary to them as the fulfillment of one part of their human nature.
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