constate

present singular third person constates · participle present constating · participle past constated · past constated

1. human sciencesTo relay information in a statement and say whether it is true or false.
2. To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.

   Above all, he has thought himself able to constate a preparoxysmal increase of albumin, from which he has drawn far-reaching conclusions.

   1948, Acta psychiatrica et neurologica: Supplementum

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   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.

   1859, Frances Power Cobbe, An Essay on Intuitive Morals