constating

Verb

constate (third-person singular simple present constates, present participle constating, simple past and past participle constated)

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