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  • 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
  • Of the many known kinds of cannibalism, five are now attested in archaeological remains.
  • To be a man's name it would have to be a contraction of Junianus, of a sort of contraction which is otherwise unattested.
  • It had something to do with sex—complete with pictures—and the dog-eared corners attested to its being quickly stashed under mattresses in numerous adolescent occupied homes.
  • Witnesses attested his account.
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  • The architecture attested to its ancient heritage, with massive castle-like structures adorned with spires and turrets on nearly every building.
  • The major data source for the linguist is not a corpus of attested utterances but a native speaker's intuitions.
  • IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned Bemar Construction Ltd. has hereunto affixed its corporate seal duly attested under the hand of its proper signing officer authorized in that regard this 10th day of October, 1990.
  • The sin was well attested. Somewhere East of Life
  • Examples have been widely attested of learners who exhibit correct performance on certain forms, and then lapse into deviance later on.
  • The merchant Sebastian Vizcaino, sailing up the southern California coast, names Syuhtun and the area sheltered by the islands Santa Barbara, in honor of an unattested 3rd century martyr.
  • Her story was told with evident reluctance, but in a simple, straightforward manner, that attested its truthfulness.
  • The River Araxes is noisy, rapid, vehement, and, with the melting of the snows, irresistible: the strongest and most massy bridges are swept away by the current; and its indignation is attested by the ruins of many arches near the old town of Zulfa. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Her outstanding abilities were attested by her rapid promotion.
  • The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors. THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
  • The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors. THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
  • The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
  • There had been no warning of his coming — a clatter of hoofs at midnight, a lathered horse in the stable, and Tom had appeared, the salt of the sea on his face as his mother attested. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
  • Her outstanding abilities were attested by her rapid promotion.
  • Dildo is first attested at the end of the 16th century in English, dibble about 150 years earlier. Laudator Temporis Acti
  • Participants must be present at the venue with bona fide certificates attested by their school head master or principals.
  • Probably the alumen referred to by Pliny, as exuding from the earth, was sulphate of alumina, without potash or soda, a salt not easily crystallized, but as effective, in many cases more effective, in the operations of dyeing, as alum, which is attested by the preference given to this salt over alum for many purposes at the present day. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • ↑ The term Zoroastrianism was first attested by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1874 in Archibald Sayce's Principles of Comparative Philology Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The sin was well attested. Somewhere East of Life
  • The term belly-dance is a creation of Orientalism, and is first attested in English in 1899, translating French danse du ventre Native to North Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, belly dancing is based on one of the oldest social dances in world history. WN.com - Articles related to Dubai's non-oil trade grows to Dh136 billion
  • This change is attested in Kamti Tai, a tonal and isolating language spoken in Myanmar.
  • This is the position attested in many texts, both classical and post-classical.
  • It is a well-attested fact, especially since the sacred precincts of established truth have been raided by every puerile pedant and sciolist who can handle a pen, that any absurdity whatever, so long as it is clad "in the lion's skin" and no matter how loudly it brays, has some fatal claim upon the rambling credulity of the multitude. The Doctor's Daughter
  • The documents attested more than 400 miracles or extraordinary graces, and thirty postulatory letters from archbishops and bishops in France besought the beatification from the Holy See. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • Skaters desirous of taking part in trials should bring their birth certificates duly attested by principals of their respective schools.
  • So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábí Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed. Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
  • That's the case you mention, "ec-", which - as far as I know - has just a few attested words to help reconstruct a proper PIE word. Archive 2007-05-01
  • Healy has a surprising affection for clinically attested, but unproven remedies, as insulin therapy, isoniazid, hyoscine, St. John's Wort, etc.
  • Two decades of relief paintings, free-standing sculptures and drawings attested to Mr. Dial's power. Museums Reveal Degas's Nudes and Islam's Splendor
  • Joinville at 400,000 French livres of his own time, and expressed by Matthew Paris by 100,000 marks of silver, (Ducange, Dissertation xx. sur Joinville.)] 99 The idea of the emirs to choose Louis for their sultan is seriously attested by Joinville, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • It may have something to do with animacy whereby an inanimate noun (which hil is proven to be in Etruscan due to plural hilχva attested in the Liber Linteus) probably cannot be treated as the subject of a transitive verb and therefore is dethroned to a position after the verb to specify mere agent of the action instead (like a kind of 'afterthought', let's say) while still treated as an unmarked nominative noun. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Surprisingly, however, they are not attested in any Western Iranian theophoric names.
  • It is well attested in the earliest sources. Christianity Today
  • It went onto the slopes of Pia Fortress and counted five fortalices, as attested by the maps of the seventeenth century.
  • That she is a woman with the most sincere and proven solicitude for refugees was attested to by their representatives.
  • They seem to give the praenomen (personal name) Titus to the same man, and a Titus Petronius Niger is attested as consul on Herculaneum tablets.
  • So that is something which historically is well-attested and the same thing has happened here in the Middle East. Why America Will Stay on Top
  • Individually they make it their business to find out what the people want or will stand for and the measure of their success in gauging the sentiment of the people is attested by the large number of successful, professional office holders who cling to their seats year after year in our national parliament. Democracy Reawakening
  • As an instance we need only recall Aspasia and her well-attested relation to Pericles and An Egyptian Princess — Volume 01
  • Some scholars occasionally propose an unattested revision of Mark, a deutero-Mark, being the base of what Matthew and Luke used.
  • A leading example is the widely attested and critically assessed levitations of St Joseph of Copertino.
  • The signature was attested by two witnesses.
  • Animal remains derived from sheep, horse, cattle and camels while agriculture was attested by flax seeds.
  • There's also a naivety in merely assuming that vowels just change at whim without feeling any pang of responsibility to explain the supposed phonetic changes intelligently i.e. helu versus the compared word hil as attested in TLE 675. False Etruscan-Latin bilingual equations
  • Why do some patterns typologically common, while others are rare or unattested?
  • Some have falsely taken evidence of change in the 2nd and 3rd centuries as a "guilt by association" validation of unattested changes in the 1st.
  • I received the thanks of the society; and was solicited to reposit my theory, properly sealed and attested, among their archives, for the information of posterity. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
  • It had something to do with sex—complete with pictures—and the dog-eared corners attested to its being quickly stashed under mattresses in numerous adolescent occupied homes.
  • Not only the yearning love of God, but the conquering freedom of Man is finally attested by that blood-red seal which bears the impressure of a Cross. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
  • Therefore, it is actually rather inaccurate to use the word conservative here; if we compare for example Standard Cantonese (SC) with Standard Mandarin (SM), then the number of tones in each would be, starting from the first attested protolanguage, Old Chinese (as far as we know, nontonal): Fun with Old Chinese rhymes
  • The man's ability was attested by his rapid promotion.
  • A telecopy of the photograph sent to Viipuri was shown to the hospital staff and was attested to as resembling the woman being held there. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
  • It is well attested in the earliest sources. Christianity Today
  • Iron-working is also attested in Normangate Field, principally by several probable furnaces in the aisled building alongside Ermine Street.
  • (1′) I knowe that sorte of men ryght well [attested 1560] It’s a kind of grammatical « Motivated Grammar
  • The relationship between nutritious food, which is not always provided at home, and concentration span is well attested. Times, Sunday Times
  • His handling of the crisis attested to his strength of character.
  • Note that those like Mack, who can be awarded respect for their hypotheses of documents otherwise unattested, are not at an advantage over our thesis.
  • The handwriting expert attested to the genuineness of the signature.
  • My spidey senses are telling me something disturbing though, that a noun that ends in a patientive suffix -aχ used to make derivative nouns from verbs, that uses an l-genitive normally given to feminines & neuters, and that is attested in the inessive three times screams like an inanimate object more than the term for a person. Archive 2007-12-01
  • The word highwayman is first attested from the year 1017. [ GoodShit
  • The byname Martel is attested from the 9th century.
  • This bespeaks a congruence that belies the alleged dichotomy, which Gerdmar again finds unattested in specific underlying data.
  • The popularity of hobbies is attested to by the enormous range of specialist hobby magazines one can find on the shelves of any newsagency.
  • Her outstanding abilities were attested by her rapid promotion.
  • Luxurious furnishings attested to the wealth of the owner.
  • So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábí Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed. Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
  • It was stated that two authorities were concerned in the matter and one would not accept the results of the tests carried out by the other as to the suitability of the water, where there were attested herds.
  • All wills shall be in writing and signed by the party devising, or by some other person in his presence and by his express direction, and shall be attested and subscribed, in the presence of said devisor, by three or more credible witnesses, each in the presence of the other. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • The word trinaχe is immediately recognizable by the Etruscan verb trin attested several times in the Liber Linteus and appears to be marked by passive -aχ- and preterite -e, just as we would find in Etruscan. Archive 2008-04-01
  • The most celebrated story of all, however, was one well-attested case of a monkey hotly pursuing an elderly policeman named Sub Inspector Bhola Ram.
  • By extension, the anterior plosive of a labial + dental ‘implosive’ would work on a dental ingressive airflow, which I believe is unattested.
  • It is well attested in the earliest sources. Christianity Today
  • The Bible claims to be a reliable historical record and this history from the very beginning was attested to by Christ and the Apostles.
  • Alexander the Great's managerial ability is attested to by his successes.
  • Gargantua, that is no reason why other nations should believe in him; that if Gargantua had really performed one single prodigy out of the many attributed to him, the whole world would have resounded with it, all records would have noticed it, and a hundred monuments would have attested it. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • She has attested as secretary to the affixation of the seal.
  • the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature
  • I have heard of similar recurrent effects from crotaline poisoning, but none scientifically attested, as is this phenomenon. The Poison Bugaboo
  • His handling of the crisis attested to his strength of character.
  • Although the almshouse did not eliminate poverty any more than the penitentiary did crime, 1820s Baltimore attested to the optimism of a dynamic age.
  • Some discovered OK through direct contact with the United States, as when a seaman laying a transatlantic cable in 1869 reported from his ship, “Tout est O.K. à bord” or “All is O.K. on board,” the first attested use of O.K. in French. The English Is Coming!
  • Many city dwellers still view themselves as partly rural, a fact attested to by a weekend and holiday return to cottages in the countryside.
  • Westlaw also manages to beat the OED on this one; “burglariously” is attested by the OED only as far back as 1807, but a quickie Westlaw search locates a 1792 North Carolina case reporting an indictment “for feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering into the dwelling house of one Rice.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Burglariously:
  • In credit transfer, the previous experience is always attested by an award or certificate from an awarding body.
  • The essays have to be attested by the class teacher or the head masters of the respective school.
  • Moreover, they retain their value and usefulness to linguists by having been well-described or well-attested. World Affairs Article: Let Languages Die
  • It's a good reminder that while Shakespeare's plays draw on well-attested literary sources, they also often have roots in gossip, the mundane, and the domestic detail of everyday life. The real Ophelia? 1569 coroner's report suggests Shakespeare link
  • The phenomenon of people not recognizing language abilities of those who don't look like the 'canonic' speaker is widely attested and works in all directions. Languagehat.com: NATIVE SPEAKER.
  • Yet it is more than just a skin, attested by the generous proportions of the apartments and the way in which light animates the interiors.
  • Given his contemporary reputation and attested habits, should we not be cautious? The Times Literary Supplement
  • A small but interesting array of imported fine wares and amphoras dating from the mid-second through the first century B.C. is attested from Messenia.
  • The spontaneous applause at this moment in the work from the audience attested to its impact!
  • Near the beginning of the trail, such species as Zanthoxylum americanum and Quercus muhlenbergii attested to the calcareous nature of the soils.
  • This word is not attested until 1993
  • The relationship between nutritious food, which is not always provided at home, and concentration span is well attested. Times, Sunday Times
  • The "shii" part is more confusing: the more common spelling of this word uses the kanji for beech tree "shii", or more properly "shihi" for beech is attested back to the 8th century, and may refer more appropriately to the beech nut. Languagehat.com: PORTOBELLO.
  • His handling of the crisis attested to his strength of character.
  • Other witnesses, whose evidence the judge also accepted, attested to her reactions at that time and confirmed her evidence.
  • This interpretation was shared by orthodox and non-orthodox alike including the earliest attested interpretation by the "gnostic" Theodotus in the second century. Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?
  • Tall woody spurges two feet high or more, with tufts of dusty green leaves, managed to draw, however, abundant moisture from the waste, as the milk that gushed from the smallest wound attested. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
  • Luxurious furnishings attested to the wealth of the owner.
  • The first attested usage of quarantine in its modern sense, the isolation of a potentially infective person or thing, is in the diary of Samuel Pepys in 1663, where he goes off onto a etmylogical point: Some words whose meanings have changed without controversy « Motivated Grammar
  • His high fever attested to his illness
  • In fact, I'm starting to get the strong notion that the real reason why some Indoeuropeanists like Julius Pokorny had included Sanskrit kapr̥t- 'penis' into his cognate series under the 'goat' etymon was just to make it look less like a substratal loanword restricted to Western Europe and more like a fully attested IE root in order to fill out his 1959 book Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Archive 2010-09-01
  • The term belly-dance is a creation of Orientalism, and is first attested in English in 1899, translating French danse du ventre Native to North Africa, WN.com - Articles related to Dubai's non-oil trade grows to Dh136 billion
  • There are some common and well-attested failings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus the importance of the whale oil is attested to.
  • This legend of the "miraculously created ellwand standard" was afterwards duly attested by a weekly service in the Church of St. John of Beverley. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
  • All of the above attested that God's sacrificial love is a final solution to the eliminate man's sin and bestowment of his righteousness.
  • This is something that I'm interested in too after my recent investigation of the name Arretium, which I've begun to believe is in origin a Germanic name not Etruscan as often claimed without concrete proof despite attested Aritim-i "in Arretium". Archive 2008-07-01
  • The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
  • The multiplication of copies, both of the original and of translations into a variety of languages, which were read, not only in private, but publicly in the religious assemblies of the early Christians; the reverence of the Christians for these writings; the variety of sects and heresies which soon arose in the Christian Church, each of whom appealed to the Scriptures for the truth of their doctrines, rendered any material alteration in the sacred books utterly impossible; while the silence of their acutest enemies, who would most assuredly have charged them with the attempt if it had been made, and the agreement of all the manuscripts and versions extant, are positive proofs of the integrity and incorruptness of the New Testament; which are further attested by the agreement with it of all the quotations which occur in the writings of the Christians from the earliest age to the present time. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • The baudekin stripes (blue and gold) of her tunic attested her royalty. The Last of the Barons — Volume 02
  • Spirit, was that of justification by the works of the law or by the faith of Christ; they very well knew that it was not the former, but the latter; and therefore must needs be inexcusable in forsaking a doctrine which had been so signally owned and attested, and exchanging it for one that had received no such attestations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • One has to produce a colour photograph of the family duly attested by the principal of the school.
  • His speech was slow and his manner might almost be called ponderous, but the advisers who whispered over his shoulder, during the course of the debate, attested the rapidity with which his mind operates and his skill in catching the points suggested. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
  • The name "Chrestus" is otherwise unattested among the Jews.
  • The relationship between nutritious food, which is not always provided at home, and concentration span is well attested. Times, Sunday Times
  • Christ, in attesting, or bearing witness to this truth, attested the truth of the whole of Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • It had been over fifty years since their last incarnation, since her last trial, as attested by the faded 1950's pinafore she wore when she visited the servants.
  • And even if it is, sentential most important is well-attested in the Oxford English Dictionary and on the Internet: The open secret of sentential adverbs « Motivated Grammar
  • A green stripe of broad clotbur (Xanthium strumarium, or lachid hanehalim in Hebrew), a plant that grows in habitats in which there are seasonal water pools, attested that the leaks are a routine matter here.
  • One has to produce a colour photograph of the family duly attested by the principal of the school.
  • The sin was well attested. Somewhere East of Life
  • Loud voices, and then thick clouds of yellow dust, coming from behind the highest and brushiest line of the embankment, attested to the truth of Jean's observation, and also to a reckless disregard of danger. To the Last Man
  • But before that the Paiutes, mesne lords of the soil, made a campoodie by the rill of Pine Creek; and after, contesting the soil with them, cattle-men, who found its foodful pastures greatly to their advantage; and bands of blethering flocks shepherded by wild, hairy men of little speech, who attested their rights to the feeding ground with their long staves upon each other's skulls. The Land of Little Rain
  • This 934 charter of King Athelstan of England acting in the Danish North was attested by fifty-eight witnesses whose names are not appended here; they include two archbishops, three sub-kings, sixteen bishops, seven ealdormen, six earls, eleven thegns. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
  • The relationship between nutritious food, which is not always provided at home, and concentration span is well attested. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sin was well attested. Somewhere East of Life
  • Her argument that the church's very keystone is control of female reproductive power by the exaltation of virginity as spiritual ideal is well attested by the appellations given two items of the maiden dance uniform.
  • It is well attested in the earliest sources. Christianity Today
  • In credit transfer, the previous experience is always attested by an award or certificate from an awarding body.
  • On the other hand, we've learned how to reconstruct unattested proto-languages from their attested descendants and how to work out the family tree of related languages.
  • And even if it is, sentential most important is well-attested in the Oxford English Dictionary and on the Internet: 2010 March « Motivated Grammar
  • In another good example of orthographic gemination, I was just reading something that contained the well-attested spelling ‘dissapointed’, which also seems to partake of the feeling of a zero-sum transfer of doubling.
  • Several witnesses attested to the fact that the mother could adequately care for the children on her own.
  • This boom in cosmographical imagery in the 1650s seems to reflect a growing public awareness of the Copernican issue, which can also be attested from other sources.
  • All are agreed that he was both a logophile and a bibliophile as attested to by his love of etymology and neologistic wordplay, and the over 10,000 books in his personal library. Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
  • The sneers and muffled giggles that accompanied his every mispronounced word attested to the fact.
  • Giacometti had an exceptionally powerful and retentive visual memory, and his biographer attested to frequent instances of recollections decades old.
  • Considered part of the early 19th century Restorationism movement, Joseph Smith attested that he was chosen by God to restore the Church of Christ to a world that had fallen away, resulting in the Great Apostasy.
  • Origin tales: Thoegeny calls Cheiron the offspring of Phillyra; the Gigantomachia and Pherekydes elaborate that Kronos took on the form of a horse to mate with her; Pindar n Pythian 4 later uses this parentage, and implies his Cheiron is married to Charilko -- who is attested in art, shown as entirely human, and with human offspring. The Origins of Centaurs
  • STOP 1. The phrase stop sign, also Made in USA, is first attested only some years later, in 1934. “stop,” OED. The English Is Coming!
  • The earlier copyist leaves off the first instance of the epithet, creating an ambiguity that a Christian could only read as referring to James the Jerusalem pillar, which reading a second scribe made explicit, or added as marginalia that was subsequently incorporated into the text, a well-attested source of interpolated material. More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels
  • I also have hypothetical roots deduced by analysing word etymologies in my database, such as *Carθaza "Carthage" ascertained from the attested name Karθazie whose context lies in TLE 724, but I decided to leave this all out for now. Etruscan Glossary (Draft 001 available for Free Download)
  • Sadly, no one has a clue as to what the plural pronouns were like and, as far as anyone knows, they aren't attested, so I'm restricted to the singular pronominal paradigm. Expanding the Etrusco-Lemnian primer
  • Similarly, it knows nothing of ancestor worship, polytheism, diviners or demons, all of which are attested to in various forms in earlier Israelite popular religion.
  • He is often described as a Burgundian composer, but in spite of well-attested contacts with Burgundian composers e.g. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Yet not one of the names in this list of nationsis historically unattested, not even that of the unlikely-sounding Gepids.
  • The man's ability was attested by his rapid promotion.
  • The handwriting expert attested to the genuineness of the signature.
  • Wordsworth's attention to such matters is well-attested. Notes on 'The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth'
  • More importantly however, the root isn't directly based on the attested words which show Greek ōkus, Latin accipiter 'hawk' Archive 2007-04-01
  • Already the forerunner was born, his mission attested by miracle and prophecy.
  • The existence of a free labour market here is well attested.
  • This praenomen is in turn attributable to the attested Latin name Sentius. Archive 2010-08-01
  • Long-distance trade both east and west is well attested, as well as internal commerce in artefacts and foodstuffs.
  • Perhaps less than 50 were really otherwise unattested.
  • Among the extinct descendants of Indo-European are two well-attested main branches, Anatolian including Hittite and Tocharian. The English Is Coming!
  • The architecture attested to its ancient heritage, with massive castle-like structures adorned with spires and turrets on nearly every building.
  • A codicil is a supplement or addition to a will, either explaining or altering former dispositions; it may be written on the same or separate paper, and is to be witnessed and attested in the same manner as the original document. The Book of Household Management
  • Scientific evidence attested to the portrait's 17th Century origins.
  • Once the forms are signed, candidates have them attested by a gazetted officer before submitting them, in bulk, to the electoral registration officer.
  • According to the etymology in Webster's 11th Collegiate for "interrobang" first attested 1967, two years before the date Wikipedia gives for Unix it's a piece of old printer's slang. UNIX Geekery Warning
  • Mavors is, as far as I know, only attested in later classical poetry and so does not necessarily suggest an archaicism. Getting the origins of Mars and Vulcan right
  • This fact can be attested to by the presence, in cities like San Francisco where graffiti is common, of illegally-painted murals executed with 30 cans of spray paint, dozens of oil paint sticks or markers loaded with artist-mixed inks, which have themselves been "defaced" by simple spray-paint or Sharpie tags. Archive 2006-07-01
  • We cannot rule out the possibility that another large, centrally located temenos of Apollo at Corinth, otherwise unattested in literary sources, has eluded the excavators of Corinth for more than a century.
  • The man's ability was attested by his rapid promotion.
  • The fragility of their beliefs is also attested to by how abusive they become when questioned.
  • Compaq's growth, in particular, is attested by anecdotal evidence from industry.
  • (The last two sentential adverbs have been attested in the OED since 1717 and 1847, respectively.) 2010 March « Motivated Grammar
  • For example, for the authorities on English etymology 'troglodyte' is adapted from the Latin and first attested in the middle of the sixteenth century - an example, one might be tempted to conclude, of the well-known re-birth of scientific interest in many fields that characterized this period. Languagehat.com: ANGLO-FRENCH.
  • While Luwian verb tabar- 'to rule' is attested, he notes that it coincidentally remains unanalysable in Indo-European terms. Diktaian Master of Crete?
  • Thorndike was the first psychologist in western nations, who attested adult learning.
  • It is attested by documentary evidence, that in the year 1374, Chaucer had a wife by name Philippa, who had been in the service of John of Chaucer
  • This raises the question of when the practice of mixing wine with water, well attested in the Classical symposium, first made its appearance in Greek lands.
  • About the middle of the last age, an inveterate ulcer was touched and cured by a holy prickle of the holy crown: 53 the prodigy is attested by the most pious and enlightened Christians of France; nor will the fact be easily disproved, except by those who are armed with a general antidote against religious credulity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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