testify

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.

   It was only after a decade away from Skipton that I was finally able to garner the courage to return and testify against my abuser.

2. 2
   verb

   To make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith.

   We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

3. 3
   verb

   To be evidence of.

   "Iberian-Sardinian" substrate features have been posited time and time again. These have usually been explained as testifying to a migration from the Iberian Peninsula to Sardinia in prehistoric times.

4. 4
   verb

   give testimony in a court of law

5. 5
   verb

   provide evidence for

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes From Middle English testifien, borrowed from Old French testifier, from Latin testificārī (“to bear witness”), from testis (“a witness”) + facere (“to make”). See -fy.