All 4 Uses of
attest
in
Moby Dick
- I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain.†
Chpt 7-9
- The dignity of our calling the very heavens attest.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.†
Chpt 31-33
- Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
to provide evidence or verbally confirm that something is true