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Assurance; certainty. [Obs.]

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Asseverative.

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.

The act of attempering or regulating. [Archaic] Bacon.

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.

The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. [Obs.]

With a crust made by browning in the oven; as, spaghetti may be served au gratin.

To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] C. Middleton.

The practice of augury.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

An autocrat. [Archaic]

Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.

The office or dignity of an autocrat.