attesting

Verb

attest (third-person singular simple present attests, present participle attesting, simple past and past participle attested)

1. (transitive) To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
   • When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?
2. (transitive) To certify by signature or oath.
   • You must attest your will in order for it to be valid.
3. (transitive) To certify in an official capacity.
4. (ambitransitive) To supply or be evidence of.
   • Her fine work attested her ability.
5. (transitive) To put under oath.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To call to witness; to invoke.
   • The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state / Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC