constate
See also: constaté
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constate (third-person singular simple present constates, present participle constating, simple past and past participle constated)
- (linguistics) To relay information in a statement and say whether it is true or false.
- To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.
- 1859, Frances Power Cobbe, An Essay on Intuitive Morals:
- It need be no concern of his how we come, through the joint action of our double nature, to apprehend at first those truths which, when apprehended, he knows to be necessary. The metaphysician has only to constate such facts ; it is the business of the psychologist to explain them.
- 1948, Acta psychiatrica et neurologica: Supplementum:
- Above all, he has thought himself able to constate a preparoxysmal increase of albumin, from which he has drawn far-reaching conclusions.
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- IPA(key): /kɔ̃s.tat/
Audio (file) - Homophones: constatent, constates
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constate
- inflection of constater:
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constate
- inflection of constare:
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constate f pl
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈstaː.te/, [kõːˈs̠t̪äːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈsta.te/, [konˈst̪äːt̪e]
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cōnstāte
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constate
- inflection of constatar:
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constate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of constar combined with te
- inflection of constatar: