Testify

Definitions: Testify

Testify

Verb

1. Give testimony in a court of law.

2. Provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence".

Date "testify" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Testify

Synonyms: attest (v), bear witness (v), evidence (v), prove (v), show (v), take the stand (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Condolence	Verb: condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament; with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.
Evidence	Bear witness; Noun: give evidence; Noun: testify, depose, witness, vouch for; sign, seal, undersign, set one's hand and seal, sign and seal, deliver as one's act and deed, certify, attest; acknowledge; (assent).
Indication	Verb: indicate; be the sign; n. of; denote, betoken; argue, testify; (evidence); bear the impress; n. of; connote, connotate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We've been given no prior notice he'd testify. No discovery of any tests he's conducted or reports he's prepared. (My Cousin Vinny; writing credit: Dale Launer.) Breach attorney-client privilege, thus getting myself disbarred for life, then testify in open court against the Mafia (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) Did you know that? He died in a fire two years ago during the investigation into the murder of a witness who was going to testify against him. Two people watched Dean Keaton walk into a warehouse he owned just before it blew up. They said he went in to check a leaking gas main. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) Let me put this to you as simply as I can. You can avoid sentencing on these charges if you will testify that in fact, you were not the boss of North Jersey, that in fact, your nephew Anthony Soprano was and is. That he de facto controlled your capos with the backing of two of the new york families communicating through their emissary, John Sacrimoni. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ram�n De Espa�a) I can't testify. (Soap; writing credit: Jos Gevers; Jeroom Verten)
Song Titles	I Wanna Testify (performing artist: The Parliaments)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	I Just Want to Testify (reference) I Know That My Redeemer Lives: Latter-Day Prophets Testify of the Savior (reference) I testify; my years as an undercover agent for the FBI (reference) Testify to Love: A Very Special Story for Children (Dove Signature) (reference) Testify! : Vietnam veterans in photographs & interviews (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	More Than the Music Live: Stand and Testify, Vol. 2 (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Testify (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The scars on his abdomen testify to blood-letting rituals. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by R. Crow..		Garvan, Chemical Foundation head, here to testify.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Morgan partners testify at Senate inquiry.Credit: Library of Congress.		J. Edgar Hoover, full-length portrait, arrives to appear before the Warren Commision to testify about President Kennedy's assassination.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dr. Benjamin Spock, half-length portrait, seated, listening to 31/2 year old Jamie Reed, while he waits to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee on medicare bill.Credit: Library of Congress.		Negro leaders testify.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Rusting combines testify to unprofitable years of wheat farming in central Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress.		Recreational opportunities in the coastal range are unparalleled as this happy fisherman will testify. Yachats River, Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Prohibition chiefs testify before Ways and Means Committee of the House.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	She alone could testify against him, and convict him by her confession.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Dr. Sweeney, who will also testify today, did experiments in mice with the same types of errors in dystrophin and found that antibiotics can cause the protein synthesizing machinery to ignore stop signals and allow muscle cells to make enough dystrophin. (references)
Children	Thailand	The new procedures allow children to testify on videotape and in private surroundings in the presence of a psychologist, psychiatrist, or other social worker. (references)
	Hong Kong	The police have a child abuse investigation unit to improve the treatment of victims, and laws have been passed to make it easier for child victims to testify in court using an interviewing suite for recording statements. (references)
Civil Liberties	South Africa	The journalists continued to refuse to testify and the case was ongoing at year's end. (references)
Economic History	Egypt	The pyramids at Giza (near Cairo), which were built in the fourth dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. (references)
	Libya	Although the Greeks and Romans left impressive ruins at Cyrene, Leptis Magna, and Sabratha, little else remains today to testify to the presence of these ancient cultures. (references)
Human Rights	Guatemala	Witnesses are often too intimidated to testify. (references)
Minorities	Argentina	The Foreign Ministry's Human Rights Directorate reported that a prosecutor in Lomas de Zamora, Manuel Devoto, was investigating the case but that of the many witnesses to the incident, including a number of railroad employees, only one has been willing to testify. (references)
Women	Antigua and Barbuda	Women in many cases are reluctant to testify against their abusers. (references)
	Pakistan	Human Rights Watch also reported that women face problems in the collection of evidence; that the doctors tasked to examine rape victims often believe that the victims are lying; that they are trained insufficiently and have inadequate facilities for the collection of forensic evidence pertaining to rape; that they do not testify very effectively in court; and that they tend to focus on the virginity status of the victim, and, due either to an inadequate understanding of the need for prompt medical evaluations or to inadequate resources, often delay the medical examinations for many days or even weeks, making any evidence that they collect of dubious utility. (references)
Worker Rights	Spain	Victims are encouraged to help police investigate trafficking cases and to testify against traffickers. (references)
	Bulgaria	The Government does not have a witness protection program, and witnesses often fear retaliation if they testify. (references)
	Spain	The law allows for trafficked persons to remain in the country if they agree to testify against the perpetrators. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Robert Novak	Mr. Majority Leader, a very prominent, conservative Republican, Congressman Ernest Istook of Oklahoma, has joined Democrats in demanding that Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge testify in open session before Congress.
Rush Limbaugh	If they were investigating Enron, they'd be calling people up, demanding they testify about what happened to the people's money and whose back pocket it went into.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	As the cowards who bombed the World Trade Center can testify, the United States will hunt down terrorists and bring them to justice.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Testify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.33% of the time. "Testify" is used about 297 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.33%	197	21,803
Lexical Verb (base form)	29.29%	87	35,390
Noun (proper)	4.38%	13	97,576
Total	100.00%	297	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "testify".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Laadah	N/A	Biblical	To testify
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "testify": testify against ♦ testify in favor of ♦ testify into ♦ testify to ♦ testify under the oath. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "testify": testify-she.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "testify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpall me solemnitet, shfaq (bear, display, evince, exert, exhibit, flash, indicate, manifest, outspeak, pour out, present, proclaim, profess, put on, read off, show), dal dëshmitar, dëshmoj (bear witness, evidence, indicate, infer, witness). (various references)

Arabic		‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, validate, verify, warrant), ‏شهد لصالح, ‏شهد ضد (witness against), ‏شهد (assist, attend, bear witness, certificate, evidence, witness), ‏دلى بشهادته (witness). (various references)

Bulgarian		свидетелствувам (attest, speak to, vouch, witness), заявявам тържествено (affirm, asseverate), заявявам под клетва (swear), потвърждавам (accredit, acknowledge, affirm, bear out, certify, clench, corroborate, endorse, homologate, ratify, reaffirm, speak to, substantiate, support, undertake, uphold, validate, verify, vindicate, vouch, warrant), изразявам лично убеждение, давам показания (witness). (various references)

Chinese		作证 (Testified, Testifying). (various references)

Czech		vypovídat (predicate, talk), svìdèit (agree, attest to, bear witness, give evidence, indicate), potvrdit (acknowledge, affirm, approve, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, establish, ratify, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify), dosvìdèit (avouch, certify, give evidence). (various references)

Dutch		getuigen (attest, bear witness of, to witness), certificeren (attest, bear witness of, certification). (various references)

Esperanto		atesti (attest, bear witness of). (various references)

Faeroese		vátta (acknowledge, admit, assert, attest, bear witness of, confess, confirm, corroborate, profess, state). (various references)

Farsi		گواهی دادن , تصدیق کردن (Acknowledge, Admit, Affirm, Authenticate, Aver, Certify, Concede, Confirm, Establish, Grant, Justify, Recognize, Rubberstamp), شهادت دادن (Affirm, Attest, Evidence, Voucher). (various references)

Finnish		todistaa (attest, bear witness, bear witness of, demonstrate, give evidence, prove, to depose evidence, to give evidence, to witness, witness). (various references)

French		attester, témoigner. (various references)

German		bezeugen (attest, attest to, bear witness of, testified, to testify, to witness, vouch, witness). (various references)

Greek		καταθέτω (deposit, lay down, pay into, to put money into an account), μαρτυρώ ενορκώσ, μαρτυρώ (attest, attest to, bear witness to, vouch, witness), επιμαρτυρώ (attest). (various references)

Hebrew		לאשר (affirm, approve, asseverate, authorise, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, endorse, indorse, maintain, obsignate, sanction, uphold, vouch), ל�"עי�" (affirm, attest, aver, bear witness, give evidence, vouch, warn, witness), ל�"צ�"יר (affirm, asseverate, certify, declare, predicate, proclaim, state), ל�"ס�"י�" (bear witness). (various references)

Hungarian		tanúsít (attest, authenticate, certify, depose, to attest, to depose, to evidence, to evince, to give evidence of sg, to manifest, to vouch, vouch, witness), bizonyít (attest, aver, demonstrate, evidence, evince, prove, to argufy, to attest, to aver, to confirm, to demonstrate, to evidence, to evince, to infer, to make good, to prove, to purport, to set out, to substantiate). (various references)

Indonesian		menyaksikan (watch, witness), mempersaksikan (watch, witness), bersaksi. (various references)

Italian		testimoniare (attest, bear witness, certify witness, depose, give evidence, record, sire, to depose evidence, to give evidence, witness, witnesses), dimostrare (argue, demonstrate, establish, look, manifest, prove, show), deporre (depose, deposit, discard, file, give evidence, give up, lay, remove, renounce, throw down). (various references)

Korean		증언하십시�". (various references)

Manx		ymmrkey feanish. (various references)

Papiamen		testiguá (attest, bear witness of). (various references)

Pig Latin		estifytay

Portuguese		testificar, testemunhar (bear witness, bring evidence to, depone, depose, nuncupation), atestar (attest, certificate, certify, replenish, show, stuff, vouch, warrant). (various references)

Romanian		mãrturisi un sentiment, depune mãrturie (bear evidence, evidence, give evidence), declara (account, adjudge, avouch, classify, contract in, declare, enter, manifest, proclaim, profess, pronounce, publish, remark, report, return, set forth, signify, sound, state), afirma sub prestare de jurãmânt, adeveri (acknowledge, attest, avouch, certify, confirm, corroborate, fortify, justify, seal, substantiate, test, verify, vouch, warrant, witness). (various references)

Russian		свидетельствовать (attest, bear testimony, bear witness, certificate, evidence, give evidence, record, testified, witnessed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		svedočiti (attest), dokazivati (evidence). (various references)

Spanish		atestiguar (attest, bear witness, certify, depose, vouch, witness), testificar (evince, witness). (various references)

Swedish		vittna (bear witness, certify witness, give evidence, to depose evidence, to give evidence, witness), intyga (attest, certify, testifies), betyga (attest, bear witness of, certify, declare, express, protest, state). (various references)

Thai		ให้การเป็นพยาน, พิสูจน์. (various references)

Turkish		tanıklık etmek (bear witness to, vouch), ifade vermek (bear testimony to, declare, depose), doğrulamak (affirm, attest, avouch, bear out, certify, confirm, correct, corroborate, hold with, homologate, justify, predicate, substantiate, support, sustain, verify, vouch), şahitlik etmek (bear witness, depose, witness). (various references)

Ukranian		свідчити (argue, attest, bear testimony, bear witness, depone, evidence, evince, give witness, homologate, militate, proclaim, reveal, swear, tell, testate, witness), підтверджувати свідченням. (various references)

Welsh		tystio (attest, witness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	arbitrabatur, arbitrabitur, arbitramini, arbitramur, arbitrans, arbitrantur, arbitrari, arbitraris, arbitrati, arbitratus, arbitrentur, arbitretur, arbitror, protestantes, protestari, protestatus, testabatur, testabor, testamur, testare, testatur, testatus, testetur, testificamini, testificamur, testificans, testificari, testificata, testificati, testificatione, testificationem, testificationes, testificatur, testificatus, testificor, testor. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	John Chapter 5, Verse 31
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ean egw marturw peri emautou h marturia mou ouk estin alhqhV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Si ego testimonium perhibeo de me testimonium meum non est verum
Old English	990	West Saxon	Gif ic ge-witnesse be me kyðe; minge-witnesse nis soð.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	If Y bere witnessing of my silf, my witnessyng is not trewe;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Yf I beare witnes of my selfe my witnes is not true.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	John Chapter 5, Verse 31
Bulgarian	�"руг има, Който свидетелствува за Мене; и зная, че свидетелството, което Той дава за Мене е истинно.
Cebuano	¶ Kon ako mao ang magpanghimatuod mahitungod sa akong kaugalingon, ang akong panghimatuod maisip nga dili tinuod.
Chinese	我若為自己作見證、我的見證就不真。
Croatian	"Ako ja svjedoèim sam za sebe, svjedoèanstvo moje nije istinito.
Danish	Dersom jeg vidner om mig selv, er mit Vidnesbyrd ikke sandt".
Dutch	Indien Ik van Mijzelven getuig, Mijn getuigenis is niet waarachtig.
Finnish	Jos minä itsestäni todistan, ei minun todistukseni ole pätevä.
French	Si c`est moi qui rends témoignage de moi-même, mon témoignage n`est pas vrai.
German	So ich von mir selbst zeuge, so ist mein Zeugnis nicht wahr.
Haitian Creole	¶ Si m' pale tèt mwen byen, moun pa ka asepte sa m'ap di a pou verite.
Hungarian	Ha én teszek bizonyságot magamról, az én bizonyságtételem nem igaz.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Andaikata Aku memberi kesaksian tentang diri sendiri, kesaksian itu tak dapat dipercaya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Jikalau Aku menyaksikan dari hal diri-Ku, maka kesaksian-Ku itu tiada benar.
Italian	Se fossi io a render testimonianza a me stesso, la mia testimonianza non sarebbe vera;
Korean	내 가 만 일 나 를 위 하 여 증 거 하 면 내 증 거 �" 참 되 지 아 니 하 되
Latvian	Ja es pats dodu liecîbu par sevi, mana liecîba nav patiesa.
Maori	¶ Mehemea ko ahau hei whakaatu i aku aha, i aku aha, ehara taku i te whakaatu pono.
Norwegian	Vidner jeg om mig selv, da er mitt vidnesbyrd ikke sant;
Portuguese	Se eu der testemunho de mim mesmo, o meu testemunho não é verdadeiro.
Rumanian	Dacq Eu mqrturisesc despre Mine knsumi, mqrturia Mea nu este adevqratq.
Russian	еУМЙ с УЧЙ�"ЕФЕМШУФЧХА уБН П уЕ�'Е, ФП УЧЙ�"ЕФЕМШУФЧП нПЕ ОЕ ЕУФШ ЙУФЙООП.
Shuar	¶ Aya Wiki "Yúsaiyaitjai" Tákunka winia chichamur ántar ainti.
Spanish	Si yo doy testimonio de mí mismo, mi testimonio no es verdadero.
Swahili	Nikijishuhudia mimi mwenyewe, ushahidi wangu hauwezi kukubaliwa kuwa wa kweli.
Swedish	Om jag själv vittnar om mig, så gäller icke mitt vittnesbörd.
Thai	ถ้าเราเป็นพยานถึงตัวเราเอง คำพยานของเราก็ไม่จริง
Ukrainian	¶ Коли свідчу про Себе Я Сам, то свідоцтво Мо�" неправдиве.
Uma	¶ "Ane ke Aku' moto-wadi to mpo'uli' ka'Aku' -na suro Alata'ala, pai' uma ria tau ntani' -na to mposabii' -a, uma ni'incai ba makono lolita-ku ba uma-di.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "testify": testifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Testify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Neustift. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "testify" (pronounced te"stufī')
5	-s t u f ī'	demystify, justify, mystify.
4	-t u f ī'	beautify, certify, decertify, fortify, gratify, identify, misidentify, mortify, notify, quantify, ratify, rectify, stratify, stultify.
3	-u f ī'	acidify, amplify, calcify, clarify, classify, codify, crucify, declassify, deify, detoxify, dignify, disqualify, diversify, edify, electrify, exemplify, falsify, gentrify, glorify, horrify, indemnify, intensify, liquefy, magnify, modify, mollify, mummify, nullify, ossify, oversimplify, pacify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, ramify, reclassify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, solidify, specify, terrify, typify, unify, verify, vilify.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-s-t-t-y"
	-1 letter: feisty, fyttes.
	-2 letters: feist, fytte, testy, yetis, yetts.
	-3 letters: efts, fets, fist, fits, seif, sett, sift, site, stet, stey, stye, test, tets, ties, tits, tyes, yeti, yett.
	-4 letters: efs, eft, fet, fey, fie, fit, ifs, its, sei, set, sit, sty, tet, tie, tis, tit, tye, yes, yet.
	-5 letters: ef, es, et, if, is, it, si, ti, ye.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-s-t-t-y"
	+2 letters: festivity.
	+3 letters: testifying.
	+4 letters: festinately.
	+5 letters: thriftlessly.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 73 74 69 66 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

- . ... - .. ..-. -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100110 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#102 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0073 0074 0069 0066 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
testify to love	51
testify	35
love lyrics testify	26
collins phil testify	20
lyrics testify	7
avalon love lyrics testify	6
love music sheet testify	4
against lyrics machine rage testify	4
joan pope testify	4
collins lyrics phil testify	3
testify vatican woman	2
chord love testify	2
avalon testify	2
love music testify	2
love mp3 testify	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Testify

Definitions: Testify

Testify

Verb

Synonyms: Testify

Synonyms within Context: Testify

Condolence

Evidence

Indication

Crosswords: Testify

Modern Usage: Testify

Screenplays

Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Testify

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Testify

Illustrations:Testify

Photo Album: Testify

Use in Literature: Testify

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Testify

Spoken Usage: Testify

Robert Novak

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Testify

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Testify

Derived & Related Names: Testify

Expressions: Testify

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Testify

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Modern Translations: Testify

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

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Dutch

Esperanto

Faeroese

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Korean

Manx

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Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

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Turkish

Ukranian

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Illustrations:
Testify