Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: central – certainty
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central, adj. [L. 'central'; (see centre).]
- Inner; coming from the inside; interior of the soul of a person.
- Key; crucial; essential; fundamental; innermost; at the core; near the center.
central, adv. [see central, adj.]
Foremost; dominantly; most importantly; with greatest influence.
centre (-s), n. [Fr. < L. centr-um, center of rotation < Gk. κεντρον, sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses.]
- Core; interior; inner domain; point of origin; [fig.] soul.
- Essence; nucleus; [fig.] aspiration; goal; focus; ultimate point; main purpose.
- The midst; the middle; the central point; farthest point away from home.
- House; institution; habitation; [metonymy] city; village; market; town; community; gathering place; cluster of dwellings.
century (centuries), n. [Fr. centurie or L. centuria, an assemblage or division of one hundred things.] (webplay: company, enacting, people, time, years).
- Era; epoch; period of time lasting one hundred years; [personification] very long time.
- Phrase. “once a Century”: about one time in a hundred years.
cerement (-s), n. [Fr. 'a waxing, a searing, a dressing, closing, covering, or mingling with wax'.]
Shroud; winding-sheet; burial garment, often covered with wax; [fig.] constraints of death; limits of mortality.
ceremonious, adv. [Fr. < L. cærimoniosus, ceremony.]
Rigidly formal; strictly observant; [fig.] stony; like cement.
certain, adj. [OFr < late L. cert-us, determined, settled, sure.] (webplay: death, number, states, true, undoubted).
- Particular; specific.
- Assured; confident; positive; sure.
certain, adv. [see certain, adj.]
Surely; just as sure as.
certainly, adv. [see certain, adj.] (webplay: doubt, man, righteous).
Definitely; surely; undoubtedly.
certainty (certainties), n. [OFr; (see certain).] (webplay: fact, God, know, mind, real, truth).
- Reality; factual person; living being; actual man still alive on earth; [fig.] more than a name.
- Faith; faithfulness; fidelity; complete trust.
- Conviction; sureness; surety.