testificate

Noun

testificate (plural testificates)

1. (Scotland, historical) A certificate of good character that was required to allow travel between parishes in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
   • The statutory part is, " that no tenant or servant be received without testificate of their carriage, agreeable to the bond annexed," upon the pain of arbitrary punishment ;1829, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, page 399
   • ...and the same day a proclamation was issued, requiring all heritors, and in their absence, their factors and chamberlains, to convocate all the inhabitants on their lands, and to bring them before any of the privy councillors or commissioners appointed by the counil, and cause them to swear the...1842, James Aikman, Annals of the Persecution in Scotland, page 506
2. (informal) A Minecraft villager.
   • Villagers have the name "TESTIFICATE" displayed over their heads as player names are displayed in multiplayer.2026 June 13 (last accessed), Minecraft Wiki contributors, “Villager”, in Minecraft Wiki
   • Welcome back. When we last left off I was in the process of duplicating all of my villagers to prepare for emerald farm upgrades. [...] Right now my job is to put together a bunch of new cages for [the villagers. ...] After a good deal of testificate wrangling it is done now.2024 March 1, Neurotic Goose, “A Pech Of Pilfered Plunder”, in Beating Minecraft's Hardest Modpack With Nothing