Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To obtest.
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Examples
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I being a Scholasticall panion, obtestate your sublimitie, to extoll mine infirmitie.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Other translators and setters of movable type likewise had little choice but to cram printed pages with sights never before seen: illecebrous, fatigate, abequitate, questitious, anacephalize, and obtestate.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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I being a Scholasticall panion, obtestate your sublimitie, to extoll mine infirmitie.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Other translators and setters of movable type likewise had little choice but to cram printed pages with sights never before seen: illecebrous, fatigate, abequitate, questitious, anacephalize, and obtestate.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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You knowe my literature, you knowe the pastorall promocion, I obtestate your clemencie, to inuigilate thus muche for me accordyng to my confidence, and as you know my condigne merites, for suche a compendious liuing.
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Among whom I beeyng a Scholasticall panion, obtestate your sublimitee to extoll myne infirmitee.
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