Attestation vs Audit - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between attestation and audit

is that attestation is a thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, authenticate, validation, verification, documentation while audit is an audience; a hearing.

As a verb audit is

to examine and adjust (eg an account).

attestation

English

Noun

(Attested language) (en noun)

A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, authenticate, validation, verification, documentation.

A confirmation or authentication.

(business, finance) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization.

(linguistics, of a language or word) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.

* 1997 , Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change , page 23,

So something must have been developing over long periods empty of attestation ; and whatever it was, it must (by principles to be discussed in the next section) have been a language of the usual kind.

* 2009 , Ingo Plag, Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe, Mareile Schramm, Introduction to English Linguistics , page 110,

For each word, the date of its first attestation in the English language, as documented in the Oxford English Dictionary'', and its frequency of occurrence in the ''British National Corpus are given.

* 2010 , Kathryn Allan, Tracing metonymic polysemy through time: MATERIAL FOR OBJECT mappings in the OED'', Margaret E. Winters, Heli Tissari, Kathryn Allan (editors), ''Historical Cognitive Linguistics , page 176,

Furthermore, the first attestations' given in the ''OED'' are not always the earliest '''attestations''' in print; since the first edition was finished in 1928, many earlier and later examples have been identified, and these will be incorporated into the third edition, currently underway (see Durkin 2002 for a discussion of how much this is likely to change the dates of '''attestation in the ''OED as a whole).

audit

English

(wikipedia audit)

Noun

(en noun)

An audience; a hearing.

* Milton

He appeals to a high audit .

An examination in general.

A judicial examination.

An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures

National Assembly audit

The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.

* Shakespeare

Yet I can make my audit up.

(Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.

(obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.

* Jeremy Taylor

It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.

Derived terms

* audit ale * audit house * audit room

Verb

(en verb)

To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).

to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court

(finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes

(Scientology) To counsel spiritually.

* 2011 , Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession (page 225)

In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited .

To attend an academic class on a not-for-academic-credit basis.