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.
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.
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.
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.
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