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obtests

obtests is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 obtests

What is obtests the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Obtests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of obtest.

Words near obtests in the dictionary

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

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