rare. [f. ppl. stem of L. testārī (or -āre): see prec. and -ATE3 5.]
1. intr. To bear witness, to testify, to attest.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., I. 2. As Epiphanius testates of him. Ibid., 15. In Bauron … she was likewise honoured, and as Lucan testates, in Taurus, a mountaine in Sicilie.
1908. Westm. Gaz., 22 July, 9/4. Prisoner was also charged with … forging the handwriting of the testating witness to the same deed.
2. To make one’s will.
1892. Pall Mall G., 21 June, 2/1. As good Mdme. Dubrai remarked whilst testating, with tears in her eyes, ‘He [a cat] has all his life been accustomed to his little luxuries.’
