Verb (used with object) : to attest the truth of a statement. ,His works attest his industry. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to attest to the reliability of an employee. From Dictionary.com.
Paleoglot: Daydreaming about unattested Etruscan pronouns skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [Daydreaming about unattested Etruscan pronouns] Reference
He traces it to an unattested Latin “hoc die”, meaning simply “this day.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Those Illiterates — Chaucer, Sir Walter Scott, and Ruskin:] Reference
So it is the safest bet compared with assuming words that are completely unattested. From Wordnik.com. [More published errors on Etruscan inscriptions] Reference
Never did find one backing up “to avenge his father” which is my unattested 13th. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » How Would a Patriot Act?] Reference
I thought, "He is right, seeing my birth is unattested, to prove if I have the Hearing.". From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
It also seems to lack any plausible etymology, and is unattested in similar ancient languages. From Wordnik.com. [Hail the vowel god! | Jewschool] Reference
It will be perceived that the delegates rest nothing of importance on their own unattested observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
There has literally been no point since 1400 when singular they went unattested in contemporary English. From Wordnik.com. [2009 September « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Wallace's title would depend on a usage of the Etruscan term that, as far as I know, is completely unattested. From Wordnik.com. [Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna] Reference
It carries a design that bears a clear resemblance to the "Ring of Nestor," even featuring those otherwise unattested chrysalises. From Wordnik.com. [Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery] Reference
A Noun that has the accent shift between Root-Stem Suffix-Case ending in Nom-Acc-Gen is a holodynamic paradigm and not unattested. From Wordnik.com. [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference
We could assume eg. a parallel but unattested Aegean loan to Anatolian from the same root, but that would remain speculation just as much. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress] Reference
Further down history we may lack a suitable resolution of data — intermediate forms may go unattested — so some apparent disrepancies will be popping up. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress] Reference
To be upset and not display a vestige may indeed become a useful trait but I can only say - an unattested pest is still a pest with no incent to learn or thus behave in any other way. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
What I'm interested in here is not so much the etymology but a curious loss of medial -n- as well as an otherwise unattested alternation at least as far as I know between locative haθe and inessive haθr-θi. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Croll's name he had written five times; but one forged signature he had left unattested!. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
Yo VOTE won't count, in this "district" or that "district" Fraud YOU LIE, unattested, felons!. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
Concede what you please to these arbitrary and unattested superstitions, how will they help you?. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
The Instrument is simply a document on parchment, signed by the King, but unsealed and unattested. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
No Health Care unattested brown skin, brown eye, man, woman, child and your neighbor born after 1964!. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
The law will give effect to the identifying agreement, although it is separate from the will and unattested. From Wordnik.com. [By Advice of Counsel] Reference
In respect of sales unattested by any written evidence this is a reasonable rule, and so far as they are concerned we have made no innovations. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
Admittedly, continual hedging and qualification make for a dull book, but a note in a foreword could absolve many authors from the onus of commitment to unattested scholarship. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4] Reference
Chapter 2 begins with a consideration of the sources for Marcion's Gospel and provides a comprehensive listing of verses attested as present in, verses attested as absent from, and unattested verses of this Gospel. From Wordnik.com. [Evangelical Textual Criticism] Reference
I suspect, however, that its earlier uses, like that one, were limited to sexually mixed groups, and that its use in all-female contexts is, if not wholly unattested in the past, at least far more common today than ever before. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3] Reference
From this we gather that if fifty thousand of the unattested married men do not enlist before the end of May they will be compelled to do so; and that altogether the Government will insist on getting 200,000 men from this source. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916] Reference
Croll’s name he had written five times; but one forged signature he had left unattested!. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
"civil rights" It was always about YOU LIE, Obama, brown skin, brown eye, unattested unto me. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
Daydreaming about unattested Etruscan pronouns. From Wordnik.com. [Laryngeal abuse - Phonemes caught in the reconstructive crossfire] Reference
Petros as a proper name is otherwise unattested. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
014: 017 and yet by His beneficence He has not left His existence unattested. From Wordnik.com. [Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts] Reference
` government issue '(or ` garrison issue,' which is interesting but unattested), or the "General Infantry" of Mr. Hereford's father. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2] Reference
Fidelity unattested. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1920-22] Reference
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