Both Uses of
testify
in
Middlemarch
- You have not implied to me that the symptoms which—I am bound to testify—you watched with scrupulous care, were those of a fatal disease.†
Chpt 4 *
- He ordered her a blister and some steel mixture, and told her to go home and rest, giving her at the same time a note to Mrs. Larcher, who, she said, was her best employer, to testify that she was in need of good food.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(testify) provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law