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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Test \Test\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tested}; p. pr & vb n.
{Testing}.]
1. (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or
cupel; to subject to cupellation.
2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or
quality of by experiment, or by some principle or
standard; to try as to test the soundness of a
principle; to test the validity of an argument.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test
the real tendency of the existing constitution.
--Washington.
3. (Chem.) To examine or try as by the use of some reagent;
as to test a solution by litmus paper.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tested
adj 1: tested and proved useful or correct; "a tested method" [syn:
{tried}, {well-tried}]
2: tested and proved to be reliable [syn: {time-tested}, {tried},
{tried and true}]
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