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).

Noun

(en-noun)

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}

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, volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence , for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}

(legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.

* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 15, work=The Scotsman

, title= Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}

One who bears witness.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

infamous and perjured evidences