[f. as prec. + -ER1, -OR.] One who attests, bears witness, or vouches for.

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1598.  Florio, Testatrice, a woman witnes, or attester.

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1663.  J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 226. Suspicion of deceit of sight or imagination in the Attestors.

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1705.  Stanhope, Paraphr., II. 607. Credible Attesters of it to Others.

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1836.  T. Davies, in Brit. Annual, 322. The mode of attesting an agreement, where the attestor could not write his name.

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