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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The place where a witness, while giving evidence in court, is stationed.

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Examples

  • Schemmer had pointed to the bruises when, on the witness-stand, he had identified Ah Cho.

    THE CHINAGO 2010

  • Did any one say here on the witness-stand that he had not bought city loan as he said he had?

    The Financier 2004

  • Most physicians, when they enter upon their duties of their medical career, feel and hope that it may never be their lot to become acquainted with a court of law, and still less with the environment of the witness-stand.

    Medical Evidence in a Court of Law 1957

  • If he is to do justice to himself; if his conduct on the witness-stand is to reflect honour upon the university that had graduated him, and, if he is to reflect honour on the profession of which he is a member, no medical expert witness, aware of these responsibilities, will enter a witness-stand unprepared.

    Medical Evidence in a Court of Law 1957

  • Nor will he enter the witness-stand until after a conference, or, where necessary, a number of conferences with counsel, and thus, not before he has had every opportunity to differentiate to the best of his ability between (a) well-established medical facts and generally accepted, but not as yet thoroughly established medical facts, and (b) between such facts and theory.

    Medical Evidence in a Court of Law 1957

  • Mrs. Stiles on the witness-stand was a very different person, apparently, from Mrs. Stiles in an every-day situation.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • (Offered in evidence.) "Cross-examine," said Mrs. Tarbell; and Mrs. Stiles slowly turned and began to hobble away from the witness-stand.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • Mr.. Stiles rose from her seat against the railing, and, after confiding her second daughter to the care of Miss Celandine, -- a ceremony which was performed by her with evident anxiety, -- hobbled to the witness-stand on the arm of Mr. Mecutchen, who had been sitting beside her.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • There is perhaps only one state of circumstances under which the medical man is likely to re-echo the sentiment, and that is when he steps down from the witness-stand, having served as an "expert."

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • Then when Peter takes the witness-stand (Acts 15: 9) and testifies that he and all the one hundred twenty at Pentecost, and afterward the household of Cornelius, received the cleansing at the time of the outpouring upon them of the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that

    Sanctification J. W. Byers

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