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Testify   /tˈɛstəfˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Testify  v. t.  
1.
To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny. "We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness."
2.
(Law) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.



Testify  v. i.  (past & past part. testified; pres. part. testifying)  
1.
To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them. "Jesus... needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man."
2.
(Law) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal. "One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die."
3.
To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; with against. "O Israel,... I will testify against thee." "I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals."



adverb
Testify  adv.  In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.






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"Testify" Quotes from Famous Books



... no wonder that Bob loved her, for no fairer or better girl lived in the land of Tre, Pol, and Pen. I, who have known her all her life, can testify to this, and as she stood there that day, young, happy, and beautiful, it was no wonder that his heart ...
— All for a Scrap of Paper - A Romance of the Present War • Joseph Hocking

... to her senses, sharpened as they were by peril, than his words could have conveyed, even had he confessed to her the cause of the emotions of doubt and apprehension that oppressed his mind. Nothing could more strikingly testify to the innocence of her character and the seclusion of her life, than her attempt to combine with her escape from Goisvintha's fury, the acquisition of such a companion as the Goth. But to the forlorn and affectionate girl who saw herself—a ...
— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... seem," said Varney, with a bitterness of aspect, "as if you would imply a doubt that I am that which thousands, by their fears, would testify ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... wonders in the financial sphere during this war, as the Allies and certain neutrals can testify. Our budgets are monuments of the nation's spirit of self-sacrifice. But we have not come scathless out of the ordeal. And besides our inevitable losses we are suffering from criminal waste. No other country ...
— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon

... greatness of the genius who can design and construct this apparatus all in one day. I will explain the miracle. I have been working on short wave phenomena for some time. In fact, I had actually made an invisibility machine, as Morey will testify, but I realized that it had no commercial benefits, so I didn't experiment with it beyond the laboratory stunt stage. I published some of the theory in the Journal of the International Physical Society—and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the pirate based ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell


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