certify

vt.
1. inform with certainty,inform 确切告知，告知。
△1H.VI.4.1.144: “When foreign princes shall becertified/That for a toy,a thing of no regard,/King Henry’s peers and chief nobility / Destroyedthemselves,and lost the realm of France!”外国的君主们若是知道了亨利王左右的贵族大臣为了一点细故、一件毫不重要的事竟会自相残杀，以至丧失了法兰西的领土！
△R.III.3.2.10:“Then certifies your lordship that this night/ Hedreamt the boar had razed off his helm；”然后他要告知大人他今夜梦见一头野猪蹭掉了他的头盔。
2. make certain,convince,assure使确信，说服，向…保证。
△1H.VI.2.3.31: “Marry,for that she’s in awrong belief,/I go to certify her Talbot’s here.”哎，因为她现在有了某种误会，我要向她证明塔尔博特已经来到这里。