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he state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty. Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. x. 22.

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton.

Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.

Certainly; indubitably. "The siege assuredly I'll raise." Shak.

The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit. [R.] The mind is astricted to certain necessary modes or forms of thought. Sir W. Hamilton.

An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell.

lphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.

Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.

The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Sir W. Thomson.

Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

lace so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain. [Obs.] Not well attaining his meaning. Fuller.

ing, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

e the ear; auricled. (b) (Zoöl.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes on each side of its petiole or base.

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.

Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.

om suggestion coming from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.