atterlathe

[A.S. atterlathe, aterlathe = betony, penny-gra .] A plant, betony. ( Stratmann.) 64 the exalted man, to whom Such high attest was given,.. given........ Milton: P. R. , bk. i. at-tes-tā'-tion, s. [In Fr. attestation ; Sp. a test a cion; Port. at test ação ; Ital. at test azione ; all from Lat. attestatio .] The act of attesting; the state of being attested; that which attests. Specially : 1. Of persons: The act of bearing witne to any document by appending one's signature to it; also the act of witne ing any opinion or statement in a le formal manner. men, as we know them, do not sacrifice their lives in the attestation of that which they know to be untrue." Tyndall: Frag. of Science (3rd ed.), iii. 53. 2. Of things: That which attests anything; specially historical evidence of an external character to the authorship or events of a history. the external attestation , corroborated by the internal evidence of the narrative, " -Lewis : Early Roman Hist . , ch. xiv., § 1. at-těs'-ta-tive, adj. [From Lat. at test at us, perf. par. of attestor (ATTEST), and Eng. suff. -ive.] Attesting. "Of attestative satisfaction: Satisfaction arising from establishing truth by evidence against a false statement prejudicial to one."- Bowring : Bentham's Works, vol. 1., p. 374. at-těst'-ěd, pa. par. [ATTEST, v.] at-test-er, at-test-or, s. -er, -or.] One who attests. [Eng. attest ; "The credit of the attesters , and truth of the relations. -J. Spencer: Prodigies , p. 397. "This arch- attester for the publick good By that one deed ennobles all his blood." Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. ( Chaucer .)