Obs. [app. repr. a med.L. *contestis joint witness, f. con- together + testis witness.] A joint witness.
1551. in Foxe, A. & M., VI. 198. The said deponent, with his contest James Basset, spake with his grace in the gallery. Ibid. (1563), (ed. 1), 713. What wordes and sentences they then herd, who was with them there as contests.
[1602. T. Fitzherbert, Apol., 13 a. When the said evidence is not so manifest, two witnesses at least are required and the same to be contestes, that is … affirming one and the same thing.]
