obtest

O1B3T1E1S1T1
/ɒbˈtɛst/

verb

To implore, beseech, plead, beg.

OriginLatin obtestor →
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Meanings

verbobtest (third-person singular simple present obtests, present participle obtesting, simple past and past participle obtested)

present singular third person obtests · participle present obtesting · participle past obtested · past obtested

  1. ambitransitivearchaicTo implore, beseech, plead, beg.
  2. ambitransitivearchaicTo call on a witness (often God) to confirm that something is true.

    Now Suppliants, from Laurentum ſent, demand A Truce, with Olive Branches in their hand. Obteſt his Clemency, and from the Plain Beg leave to draw the Bodies of their ſlain.

    1697, Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 542, lines 149–152

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
vouch

Origin

  1. Latinobtestor
  2. Latinobtestor
  3. Englishobtest

Borrowed from Latin obtestor.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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