testify (verb)
101compel — com·pel /kəm pel/ vt com·pelled, com·pel·ling: to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure and esp. by authority or law cannot compel the defendant to testify the result...is compelled by, the original understanding of the fourteenth… …
102Philosophy and its background in the early medieval West — Rosamond McKitterick and John Marenbon ‘Libraries, schools and the dissemination of texts’ is by Rosamond McKitterick; the ‘Introduction’ and ‘Philosophical themes’ are by John Marenbon. INTRODUCTION The period from 800 to 1100 is even more… …
103certify — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. attest (See affirmation, evidence). II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To give assurance] Syn. guarantee, accredit, vouch for, endorse; see approve 1 , guarantee 1 . 2. [To state formally] Syn. attest, verify,… …
104depose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. swear, affirm, testify; dethrone, uncrown, unseat, oust, disbar. See nullification, evidence. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. remove, oust, dethrone, impeach; see dismiss 1 , 2 , oust . III (Roget s 3… …
105evidence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Means of proving Nouns 1. evidence, facts, premises, data, grounds, demonstration, confirmation, corroboration, support, ratification, authentication, acknowledgment, proof; state s, king s, queen s,… …
106prove — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. confirm, verify, substantiate, show, demonstrate, document, check, try, test. See evidence, certainty, feeling.Ant., disprove. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. justify, substantiate, authenticate,… …
107verify — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. corroborate, substantiate, confirm, prove, make certain, establish; identify. See evidence, demonstration. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. establish, substantiate, authenticate, prove, check, test,… …
108declare — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To speak formally or emphatically] Syn. assert, announce, pronounce, proclaim, publish, claim, tell, state, say, affirm, maintain, aver, avow, attest, testify, certify, repeat, insist, contend, advance, allege, argue,… …
109detest — [16] Latin dētestārī, source of detest, meant ‘denounce’. It was a compound verb formed from the pejorative prefix dē and testārī ‘bear witness’. This in turn was a derivative of testis ‘witness’, source of English testify, testimony, and… …
110protest — mid 14c. (implied in protestation) solemn declaration, from L. protestari declare publicly, testify, protest, from pro forth, before + testari testify, from testis witness (see TESTAMENT (Cf. testament)). Original sense preserved in to protest… …
