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obtesting

obtesting is the present participle and gerund of obtest.

Meaning of obtest

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To implore, beseech, plead, beg.
  2. (ambitransitive, archaic) To 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...

Questions about obtesting

What is obtesting the present participle and gerund of?
Obtesting is the present participle and gerund of obtest.

Words near obtesting in the dictionary

  1. obtestate
  2. obtestates
  3. obtestation
  4. obtestations
  5. obtested
  6. obtesting
  7. obtests
  8. obteyn
  9. obtrapeziform
  10. obtrectation
  11. obtrectations

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