Word Meanings - TESTIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal. One witness shall not testify against any person to cause
Additional info about word: TESTIFY
To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal. One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Num. xxxv. 30. 3. To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against. O Israel, . . . I will testify against thee. Ps. l. 7. I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. Neh. xiii. 15. (more info) -ficare to make. See -fy, and cf. Attest, Contest, Detest, 1. To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them. Jesus . . . needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. John ii. 25.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TESTIFY)
- Affirm
- Assert
- swear
- testify
- tell
- aver
- propound
- asseverate
- depose
- state
- declare
- endorse
- maintain
- Attest
- Vouch
- assert
- certify
- witness
- vouch for
- affirm
- evidence
- support
- confirm
- suggest
- prove
- involve
- demonstrate
- establish
- imply
- bespeak
- Certify
- Acknowledge
- attest
- vouch
- avow
- avouch
- protest
- inform
- assure
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TESTIFY)
- Suppress
- repress
- suppose
- imply
- deny
- contradict
- retract
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- abandon
- discontinue
- oppose
- discourage
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
- suppress
Related words: (words related to TESTIFY)
- PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - MAINTAIN
by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - ASSURER
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - IMPLY
1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is - CONTRADICTABLE
Capable of being contradicting. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - SUGGESTER
One who suggests. Beau. & Fl. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - SUGGEST
1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty; - AVOUCHMENT
The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton. - INFORMOUS
Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne. - AFFIRMATIVELY
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. - ASSERT
self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to - INVOLVEDNESS
The state of being involved. - RETRACTOR
One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - INEVIDENCE
Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - WELL-INFORMED
Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - MAINSWEAR
To swear falsely. Blount.