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UK
/ɐtˈɛst/
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[ US /əˈtɛst/ ]
[ US /əˈtɛst/ ]
VERB
- give testimony in a court of law
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provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication
His high fever attested to his illness
This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness -
establish or verify the usage of
This word is not attested until 1993 -
authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity
I attest this signature
How To Use attest In A Sentence
- Tumbling down slopes near Wawona at the south end of the park, Chilnualna Creek - at its fattest and fastest this time of year - creates a series of foaming cascades around giant boulders.
- Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
- Thos who eat most are not always fattest; those who read most,[sentence dictionary] not always wisest.
- The term belly-dance is a creation of Orientalism, and is first attested in English in 1899, translating French danse du ventre. WN.com - Financial News
- The huge advance that she secured for the book attests to the place she has carved out on the cultural landscape. Times, Sunday Times
- The exuberance with which he engages every topic attests to the wonders he can accomplish with his prose.
- Of the many known kinds of cannibalism, five are now attested in archaeological remains.
- Whether or not Hugo was a wall-painter, the records of his activities as carver and manuscript painter attest to his versatility.
- To be a man's name it would have to be a contraction of Junianus, of a sort of contraction which is otherwise unattested.
- A stream of people attest to the fact that it was Bolden's cornet that blasted out over those syncopated beats back in the 1900s that first defined jazz.
