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==English== ===Verb=== {{en-verb}} # {{obsolete|transitive}} To present with a tester. <!--which sense?--> #: {{rfquotek|Shakespeare}} {{Webster 1913}} |
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#* '''1590''' or '''1591''', William Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'', Act 1 Scene 1 line 152 |
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#*: To testify to you bounty, I thank<br>you, you have '''testern'd''' me; in requital whereof,<br>henceforth carry your letters yourself. |
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Revision as of 19:24, 10 April 2013
English
Verb
testern (third-person singular simple present testerns, present participle testerning, simple past and past participle testerned)
- Template:obsolete To present with a tester.
- 1590 or 1591, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 Scene 1 line 152
- To testify to you bounty, I thank
you, you have testern'd me; in requital whereof,
henceforth carry your letters yourself.
- To testify to you bounty, I thank
- 1590 or 1591, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 Scene 1 line 152
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “testern”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)