atterrate

t. [Lat. ad = to, and terra, * tera = dry land, as distinguished from the heavens, the sea, the air, .] To add to the land, to form into dry land. ăt'-těr-rā-těd, pa. par. [ATTERRATE.] at-ter-rā-ting, pr. par. [ATTERRATE.] IMG:content-0877.png:[blocks in formation] II. To bear witne . 1. Lit .: Where the witne is a person. (a) Properly: To bear witne to the genuinene of a document and the truth of its contents by appending one's signature to it; to certify. (b) In any other way, whether by word or deed, to confirm the truth of an allegation or fact. "Live thou: and to thy mother dead attest That cleare she dide from blemish crim in all." Spenser: F. Q., II. i. 87. "I dom one us, whom Ilion fields attest Of matchle deeds Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. xix., 211-12. 2. When the witne is a thing, as, for instance, a book, a pa age or pa ages in a book, coincidences of fact in a statement, or anything similar. they formerly did so, as is attested by pa ages in Pliny."-Darwin: Orig of Species (1859), ch. 1, p. 34... the casual coincidences of fact, with which contemporary literature abounds, serve to attest the narrative of the historian, and to confirm its veracity." -Lewis: Early Rom . Hist ., ch. vi., § 5. B. In trans. To bear witne . "Till from the fleet our presents be convey'd, And, Jove attesting , the firm compact made." Pope: Homer's Iliad , bk. xix., 189-90. "Nor speak I rashly, but with faith averr'd, And what I speak attesting Heaven has heard." Pope : Homer's Ody ey, bk. xiv., 175-6. "Alternate each th' attesting sceptre took, And, rising solemn, each his sentence spoke." Pope: Homer's Iliad , bk. xviil., 587-8.