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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Attest \At"test"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attested}; p. pr & vb
n. {Attesting}.] [L. attestari ad + testari to bear witness:
cf F. attester.]
1. To bear witness to to certify; to affirm to be true or
genuine; as to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of
record.
Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors.
--Addison.
2. To give proof of to manifest; as the ruins of Palmyra
attest its ancient magnificence.
3. To call to witness; to invoke. [Archaic]
The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state
Attests in oaths, and fears to violate. --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
attested
adj 1: bearing the signature of a witness attesting to something's
legality [syn: {attested to(p)}]
2: asserted as true under oath; "a statement attested by
witnesses" [syn: {avowed}]
3: established as genuine [syn: {authenticated}, {documented}]
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