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Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absolute 't was very Cloten. Shak.

To resolve or explain. [Obs.] "We shall not absolve the doubt." Sir T. Browne.

remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest. Pope.

Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

ferent names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

l the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, w…

Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding Milton.

In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.

Doubtful or ambiguous language. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. "Amphibological expressions." Jer. Taylor. -- Am*phib`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Ambiguous; doubtful. [Obs.] Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king. Howell.

Doubt; uncertainty. [Obs.] Shelford.

deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [Obs.] Locke.

Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

ivine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

he king shall arise. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. Ex. i. 8. The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton.