v. rare. [a. F. constate-r to establish as certain, ascertain, certify, verify, state as certain. In the Dict. of the Académie only from 1740, and app. of not much earlier origin. According to Littré f. L. con- + status STATE; but more prob. f. L. constāt-, ppl. stem of constāre: in sense, it is a causal derivative of conster to be established, be certain, ad. L. constāre, whence also the original pr. pple. constant has the sense ‘certain, established.’]
trans. To establish, ascertain, state.
a. 1773. Alban Butler, Moveable Feasts (1852), II. 17. Its reality was constated to a degree of conviction.
1865. Miss Cobbe, Studies New & Old, 9. Having constated the peculiar doctrines of Christ.
1889. J. M. Robertson, Ess. Crit. Method, 52. We may perhaps best progress by constating a little more lucidly the phenomena he seems to have in view.
