Now rare. [a. obs. F. testificacion c. (1400 in Godef.), or ad. L. testificātiōn-em, n. of action f. testificārī to TESTIFY.] The action or an act of testifying; the testimony borne; a fact or object (as a document, etc.) serving as evidence or proof.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst., vii. (1841), 69. Wyttnessynge here, be trew testyficacion, That maydenys childe xal be prince of pes.
1593. Abp. Bancroft, Daung. Posit., I. iii. 10. A testification was made of their intentes.
1633. Sanderson, Serm. (1681), II. 30. Honour … is an acknowledgment or a testification of some excellency or other in the person honoured, by some reverence or observance answerable thereunto.
1640–1. Kirkcudbr. War.-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855), 42. That he shall bring … Margaret Sampell’s testification that he is her hired servant.
1671. Flavel, Fount. Life, xi. Thankofferings, in Testification of Homage, Duty and Service.
1718. Hickes & Nelson, J. Kettlewell, II. xxxii. 139. For the perpetual Testification whereof there was an Instrument drawn up.
1865. G. Meredith, Rhoda Fleming, ix. The thin blue-and-pink paper, and the foreign postmarks—testifications to Dahlia’s journey.
