certification 
2. A making sure or certain ; certain informa- 
tion; means of knowing. 
There can be no certification how they stand. 
llaklwjt's Voyages, I. 219. 
3. An explicit or formal notice ; specifically, in 
law, a certificate attesting the truth of some 
statement or event; the return to a writ. 4. 
The writing on the face of a check by which it 
is certified. See certify. 
certifier (ser'ti-fi-er), n. One who certifies or 
assures. 
certify (ser'ti-fi), v. ; pret. and pp. certified, 
ppr. frrtifyiiit/. [< ME. certifies, < OF. certifier, 
certeficr, F. certifier = Pr. Sp. Pg. certified!- = 
It. certificare, < ML. certificare, certify, < L. cer- 
tus, certain, + -ficare,(.facerc, make : see certain 
and -/)/.] I. trans. 1. To assure or make cer- 
tain (of) ; give certain information to ; tell posi- 
tively : applied to persons, and followed by of 
before the thing told about, or by that before 
a verb and its nominative : as, I certified you 
of the fact. 
And returne to telle how Merlin departed from the 
kynge Arthur, and how he certified the kynge Ban and 
his wif of dyuers dreines that thei hadden mette. 
Merlin (E. E. T. .), iii. 416. 
In a iournay, to certefy yon all, 
An hundered knightes of this said contre 
Distroed and slain, put to deth mortall. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4068. 
We sent and certified the king. Ezra iv. 14. 
I go to certify her, Talbot'shere. S Aa*. , 1 Hen. VI., it 3. 
You are so good, 'tis a shame to scold at you ; but you 
never till now certified me that you were at Casa Ambrosio. 
Gray, Letters, 1. 126. 
2. To give certain information of; make clear, 
definite, or certain; vouch for: applied to things. 
This is designed to certify those things that are con- 
firmed of God's favour. IlamuwtuL, Fundamentals. 
The disease and deformity around us certify the infrac- 
tion of natural, intellectual, and moral laws. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 226. 
3. To testify to or vouch for in writing ; make a 
declaration of in writing under hand, or hand 
and seal ; make known or establish as a fact. 
The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, 
and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. 
Blackgtone. 
Certified Check, a check which has been recognized by 
a competent officer of a bank as a valid appropriation of 
the amount of money specified therein to the payee, and 
bearing the evidence of such recognition. To certify a 
check, to acknowledge in writing upon it that the bank 
on which it is drawn has funds of the drawer sufficient 
to pay it. This is done by writing across the face of the 
check the name of the officer deputed by the bank for that 
purpose, and the word "good," or any customary equiva- 
lent ; when done by authority of the bank this has the same 
effect as the acceptance of a bill of exchange, binding the 
bank to pay the amount of the check, whether in funds 
of the drawer or not. 
II, intrans. To testify; declare the truth; 
make a certification or certificate. [Rare.] 
And thei scidc that thei were with Julius Cezar, Em- 
perour of Koine, and ledde to hym that sauage man that 
thei hadde founded in the foreste, for to certefle of a vision 
that was shewed hym slepinge. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 426. 
The trial by certificate is allowed in such cases where 
the evidence of the person certifying is the only proper 
criterion of the point in dispute. 
Blackxtone, Commentaries, III. xxii. 3. 
certiorari (ser"shi-o-ra'ii), re. [< LL. certiorari, 
be informed of, inf. pass, of certiorare, inform, 
lit. make more certain, < L. certior, compar. 
of certus, certain: see certain.'] In law, a writ 
issuing from a superior court to call up the 
record of a proceeding in an inferior court or 
before any body or officer exercising judicial 
power, that it may be tried or reviewed in the 
superior court. This writ is usually obtained upon 
complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or 
that he cannot have an impartial trial in the inferior court 
or body. It is now to a great extent superseded by the 
appeal. 
certiorate! (ser'shi-o-rat), v. t. [< LL. certiora- 
tus, pp. of certiorare, inform : see certiorari.] 
To inform ; assure. 
As I am this instant certiorated from the court at White- 
hall. Scott, Pcveril, xli. 
certitude (ser'ti-tud), . [= F. certitude = Pr. 
sertetut = Cat. certitut = Sp. certitud = It. cer- 
titudine, < ML. certitudo (-din-), < L. certus, cer- 
tain: see certain.] Certainty; complete assur- 
ance ; freedom from doubt. 
The world . . . 
Hath really neither joy, nor light, nor love, 
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain. 
M. Arnold. 
Certitude, as I have said, is the perception of a truth 
with the perception that it is a truth. 
J. H. Newman, Gram, of Assent, p. 187. 
cert-money (sert'mun"i), n. [< ME. cert (see 
cert) + money.] In old Eng. law, head-money, 
902 
paid yearly by the residents of several manors 
to the lords thereof, for the certain keeping of 
the leet, and sometimes to the hundred. 
certosa (cher-to'sit), n. [It. ; cf. Carthusian.] 
A monastery of Carthusian monks, especially in 
Italy. The most celebrated is the great establishment 
near 1'avia in Lombardy, founded by Gian Galeazzo Vis- 
conti, first duke of Milan, in 1396, the decorations of which 
are of extraordinary architectural richness. 
certosina-work (cher-to-se'na-werk), n. [< It. 
eertosina (< certosa, a 'convent of Carthusian 
monks) -f work.] An inlay of wood and other 
materials, usually light upon dark, as ivory, 
satinwood, and the like on walnut or other 
dark wood. Compare tarsia. 
certy, . See certie. 
cerulet, n. [< L. cxrulus, dark-blue : see cerule- 
ous.'] Cerulean. Also spelled ccerule. 
Then gan the shepheard gather into one 
His stragling Goates, and drave them to a foord, 
Whose ccerule streame, rombling in Pible stone, 
Crept under mouse as greene as any goord. 
Speimer, Virgils Gnat. 
The bark, 
That silently adown the cerule stream 
Glides with swift sails. J. Dyer, The Fleece, ii. 
cerulean (se-ro'le-an), a. [< L. cxruleus (see 
ceruleous) + -fin'.] Sky-eolored; clear light- 
blue ; blue. Also spelled carrulean. 
It stands like the cendean arch we see, 
Majestic in its own simplicity. 
Cowper, Truth, 1. 26. 
Blue blue as if that sky let fall 
A flower from its cerulean wall. 
Bryant, Fringed Gentian. 
Cerulean blue. See blue. Cerulean warbler, Den- 
drazca txerulea, a small insectivorous migratory bird of 
North America, 4J inches long, belonging to the family 
Siilricolid& or Mniotiltidce, of an azure-blue color varied 
with black and white. 
ceruleated (se-rd'le-a-ted), a. [< L. cafruleus 
(see ceruleous) + -a'te"* + -ed 2 .] Painted blue. 
Also spelled cceruleated. [Rare.] 
cerulein (se-ro'le-in), n. [< L. cairuleus (see 
ceruleous) 4- -'n 2 .] 1. Same as azulene. 2. A 
coal-tar color used in dyeing, prepared by treat- 
ing gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It is 
mostly used in dyeing or printing cotton fabrics, although 
applicable to wool and silk. It produces fast olive-green 
shades. Sometimes called anthracene ijreen. 
ceruleoust (se-ro 'le-us), a. [< L. cceruleus, 
poet, also catrulus, dark-blue, dark-green, dark- 
colored ; perhaps for "cailulus, < ccelum, the sky : 
see ceil, celest.] Cerulean. Also spelled earru- 
leous. 
This ceruleous or blue-coloured sea that overspreads the 
diaphanous firmament. 
Ln: H. More, Conjecture Cabalistica, p. 3 b. 
cerulescent (ser-6-les'ent), a. [< cerulf + -es- 
cent.] Somewhat blue; approaching in color 
to blue. Also spelled candescent. 
ceruleum (se-ro'le-um), n. [NL., < L. cwrule- 
um, neut. of cteruleus, blue : see ceruleous.] A 
blue pigment, consisting of stannate of pro- 
toxid of cobalt, mixed with stannic acid and 
sulphate of lime. Vre, Diet. Also spelled OE- 
ruleum. 
cerulific (ser-o-lif'ik), a. [< L. carruleus (see 
ceruleous) + -ficus, < facere, make.] Of or pro- 
ducing a blue or sky-blue color. Also spelled 
ca'rulific. [Rare.] 
The several species of rays, as the rubifick, cerulijlck, 
and others, are . . . separated one from another. 
N. Grew, Cosmulogia Sacra, ii. 2. 
cerumen (se-ro'men), n. [NL., < L. cera, wax : 
see cere.] Ear-wax ; the wax-like substance 
secreted by numerous glands situated in the 
external meatus of the ear. It is a mixture mainly 
of fats and soaps, with some coloring matter. It acts as 
a lubricant, and by its peculiar bitterness is supposed to 
prevent the entrance of insects. 
cerumenous, a. See ceruminous. 
ceruminiferous (se-ro-mi-nif'e-rus), a. [< NL. 
cerumen (-min-) + L. ferre, ="E. bear 1 , + -ous.] 
Producing cerumen. 
ceruminiparous (se-ro-mi-nip'a-rus), a. [< NL. 
cerumen (-min-) + 'parere, bring forth, + -ous.~] 
Same as ceruminiferotis. 
ceruminous (se-rii 'mi-mis), a. [< cerumen (win-) 
+ -o*.] Re- 
lating to or 
containing 
cerumen. Al- 
so written ce- 
rumenous. 
Ceruminous 
glands. See 
aland. 
Cerura (se - 
ro ' ra), n. 
~~""~ "* f f T 
Puss-moth (Centra multiscripta 
', UOrn, + natural size. 
Cervicapra 
oi'pa, tail.] A genus of arctiid moths: so called 
from the extensile anal appendages of the larvse. 
The species are known a.s jmss-nintlis ; C. riiutla, which 
feeds on the willow, poplar, and other trees, is an exam- 
ple. See jntff-ntotft. 
ceruse (se'ros), n. [< ME. ceruse, < OF. ceruse, 
P. ceruse = Pr. ceruga = Sp. Pg. ccrusa = It. 
ccrussa, < L. cerussa, white lead, prob. < cera, 
wax: see cere.] White lead; a mixture or com- 
pound of hydrate and carbonate of lead, pro- 
duced by exposing the metal in thin plates to 
the vapor of vinegar. It is much used in painting, 
and a cosmetic is prepared from it. Lead is sometimes 
found native in the form of ceruse, but in this case it is 
generally called cerusite. 
Ther was quyksilver, litarge, ne bremstoon, 
Boras, ceruse, ne oille of tartre noon, 
Ne oynement that wolde dense and lyte, 
That him mighte helpen of his whelkes white. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 629. 
Lend me your scarlet, lady. 'Tis the sun 
Hath giv'n some little taint unto the ceruse. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, ii. 1. 
Your ladyship looks pale ; 
But I, your doctor, have a ceruse for yon. 
Massinyer, Duke of Milan, v. 2. 
Ceruse of antimony, a white oxid of antimony, which 
separates from the water in which diaphoretic antimony 
has been washed. 
ceruse (se'ros), r. t. ; pret. and pp. cerused, ppr. 
cerusing. [< ceruse, n.] To wash with ceruse ; 
apply ceruse to as a cosmetic. 
Here's a colour ! 
What lady's cheek, though cerue'd o'er, comes near it? 
Fletcher (and another). Sea Voyage, v. 2. 
cerusite, cerussite (ser'o-sit), n. [< ceruse (L. 
cerxssa) + -ite 2 .] A native carbonate of lead, 
PbC0 3 ; a common lead ore, found in England, 
Siberia, the Harz, etc., often in conjunction 
with galena or sulphid of lead. It occurs crys- 
tallized, fine granular, or earthy. Its color is white, yel- 
lowish, or grayish, and its luster adamantine. It is often 
derived from the decomposition of galena. Sometimes 
called ceruw. 
cervalatt, cervelatt, . [P. cen-elat, a kind of 
sausage, whence ult. E. sareloy, q. v.] 1. A 
kind of sausage. See sareloy. 2. An obsolete 
musical instrument of the clarinet kind, pro- 
ducing tones similar to those of the bassoon. 
Cervantist (ser-van'tist), n. [< Cervantes + 
-ist.] A student of the works of Cervantes 
(1547-1616), a Spanish novelist, author of "Don 
Quixote." 
Mr. Gibson's versions of the almost forgotten dramatic 
and lyrical works of the author of " Don Quixote " have 
won the applause of all true Cervantistg, both in England 
and in Spain. Athenaeum, No. 3077, p. 499. 
cervantite (ser-van'tlt), . [< Cervantes, a lo- 
cality in Spanish Galicia, + -ite 2 .] A native 
oxid of antimony of a white to yellow color, 
occurring in acicular crystallizations or mas- 
sive. 
cervelatt, ". See cerralat. 
cerveliere (ser-ve-liar'), n. [< OF. ceneliere, 
cervelliere, < eerveau, cervelle, the brain : see cere- 
bellum. ] A skull-cap of steel, worn by medieval 
foot-soldiers. See coif, 3 (c). 
cervical (ser'vi-kal), a. and n. [= F. Sp. Pg. 
cervical = It. cervicale, < L. "ceri'icalis (only as 
neut. n. cervical, cervicale, a pillow or bolster), 
< cervix (cervic-), 
the neck.] I. a.. I. 
Of or pertaining to 
the neck : as, the 
cervical nerves ; cer- 
vical vessels ; cervi- 
cal vertebrre. 2. 
In med., pertaining 
to the cervix or 
neck Of the UterUS : Third Human Cervical Vertebra. 
- centrum; s, bifid neural spine; 
ne "' al lamina ; rf, diapophysis 
proper, being the posterior or tuber- 
nith., Of Or pertain- c " lal : transverse process; f, parapo- 
, , * . physis, being the anterior or capitular 
ing to the CerVIX, transverse process; rf '. A, so-called 
BCTUff, Or back Of ^Sierfa, fiS3EW**' 
the neck, or to the 
anchenium, just behind the nape of the neck : 
as, a cervical collar. Cervical fold, in Cnmtacea, 
a dep'ression on the sides of the body, representing the 
union of the maxillary with the maxillipedary segments. 
It represents the neck of such an animal, or the demar- 
kation between the head and the thorax, and contains the 
scaphognathite, an appendage of the second maxilla. 
Cervical ganglia. See gaiirilinn. Cervical groove, in 
Crustacea, an impression on the carapace parallel with 
the cervical fold. Cervical sclerites, in enlom., small 
chitinous pieces in the membrane which connects the 
head of an insect with the body. Huxley. See cut under 
Insecta. 
II. n. A cervical part or organ; especially, 
a cervical vertebra. 
Cervicapra (ser-vi-kap'ra), n. [NL. (De Blain- 
ville), < Ccrviis + Capra."] A genus of African 
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