Verb

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(attest)

Verb

(en verb)

To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.

When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?

* Addison

facts attested by particular pagan authors

* 1599 — Shakespeare, iii 1'' (Act ii in ''First Folio edition)

Dishonour not your Mothers: now attest that those whom you call'd Fathers, did beget you.

To certify by signature or oath

You must attest your will in order for it to be valid.

To certify in an official capacity.

To supply or be evidence of

Her fine work attested her ability.

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The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.

* 1599 — Shakespeare, Prologue'' (''First Folio edition)

O pardon : since a crooked Figure may / Attest in little place a Million, / And let us, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke.

To put under oath.

To call to witness; to invoke.

* Dryden

The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state / Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.

Verb

(en verb)

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

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he would often assert his beliefs to us

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

to assert one's authority

Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)