Certified vs Adept - What's the difference?
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(certify)
to attest to as the truth or meeting a standard
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
* 1837-1839 ,
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
* 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
As a verb certified
is past tense of certify.As an adjective adept is
well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.As a noun adept is
one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.certified
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*certify
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* (to attest as to) attest, witness, vouch for, approve, confirmDerived terms
* certifiable * decertifyAnagrams
*adept
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(en-adj)- Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
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* ineptNoun
(en noun)- When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
- Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
