Testify

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adv In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

II. Testify ·vt To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny.

III. Testify ·vt To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.

IV. Testify ·vi To declare a charge; to Protest; to give information; to bear witness;

— with against.

V. Testify ·vi To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.

VI. Testify ·vi To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.