[f. prec. vb.]
1. Evidence, testimony, witness.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., V. ii. 122 (Qo.). A credence in my heart … That doth inuert th’ attest [Folio that test) of eyes and eares.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep. (1650), 143. Nor will the attest or prescript of Philosophers … be a sufficient ground.
1830. Wordsw., Egypt. Maid. Here must a high attest be given, What Bridegroom was for her ordained by Heaven.
2. Attesting signature, attestation.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., II. Pref. (1739), 6. The attests of the King’s Chaplain and his Scribe, do shew also that they were not all Members of the House of Lords.
