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testify

verb
/ˈtɛstɪfaɪ/

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes From Middle English testifien, borrowed from Old French testifier, from Latin testificārī (“to bear witness”), from testis (“a witness”) + facere (“to make”). See -fy.

  1. derived from testificor — “to bear witness”
  2. derived from testifier
  3. inherited from testifien

Definitions

  1. To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.

    • It was only after a decade away from Skipton that I was finally able to garner the courage to return and testify against my abuser.
    • One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

  2. To make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith.

    • We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
    • [T]he pleaſures of ſenſe have no reliſh vvhere thou [Jesus] irradiateſt and teſtifieſt vvith our conſcience, that vve are the children of God, and have done thy vvill ſincerely, […]

  3. To be evidence of.

    • "Iberian-Sardinian" substrate features have been posited time and time again. These have usually been explained as testifying to a migration from the Iberian Peninsula to Sardinia in prehistoric times.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at testify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at testify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at testify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA