obtest

obtest
/ob test"/, v.t.
1. to invoke as witness.
2. to supplicate earnestly; beseech.
v.i.
3. to protest.
4. to make supplication; beseech.
[1540-50; < L obtestari, equiv. to ob- OB- + test(is) a witness + -ari inf. suffix]

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