obtest
Americanverb (used with object)
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to invoke as witness.
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to supplicate earnestly; beseech.
verb (used without object)
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to protest.
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to make supplication; beseech.
verb
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(tr; may take a clause as object or an infinitive) to beg (someone) earnestly
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to object; protest
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(tr) to call (a supernatural power) to witness
Other Word Forms
- obtestation noun
Etymology
Origin of obtest
1540–50; < Latin obtestārī, equivalent to ob- ob- + test ( is ) a witness + -ārī infinitive suffix
Example Sentences
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Obtest, ob-test′, v.t. to call upon, as a witness: to beg for.—v.i. to protest.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
It is not an actor; and it cannot adopt the figured passion of the actor, rend its robe, and flourish, and obtest heaven against the traitor and the oppressor, to the sound of an orchestra, or in the glitter of stage lamps.
From Project Gutenberg
Likewise, we plead and obtest, that a search may be made into, and a review taken of the late toleration, and addressing for it, and acceptance of it, complexly considered: The sinfulness whereof, we could not, and now cannot forbear to witness against.
From Project Gutenberg
But he comes yet lower to request and obtest poor sinners, as if he could have advantage by it; he will not stand428 to be a supplicant at any man's door, to beseech him to be reconciled to God, 2 Cor. v.
From Project Gutenberg
Of this I obtest the fidelity of Your own inviolable Party, distinguished formerly by the invidious name of Cavalier, though significant and glorious; but I provoke the World to produce me an example of parallel Loyaltie: What Prince under heaven, after so many losses, and all imaginable calamities, can boast of such a party?
From Project Gutenberg
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