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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To obtest.

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Examples

  • I being a Scholasticall panion, obtestate your sublimitie, to extoll mine infirmitie.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Other translators and setters of movable type likewise had little choice but to cram printed pages with sights never before seen: illecebrous, fatigate, abequitate, questitious, anacephalize, and obtestate.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • I being a Scholasticall panion, obtestate your sublimitie, to extoll mine infirmitie.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Other translators and setters of movable type likewise had little choice but to cram printed pages with sights never before seen: illecebrous, fatigate, abequitate, questitious, anacephalize, and obtestate.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • You knowe my literature, you knowe the pastorall promocion, I obtestate your clemencie, to inuigilate thus muche for me accordyng to my confidence, and as you know my condigne merites, for suche a compendious liuing.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4 1981

  • Among whom I beeyng a Scholasticall panion, obtestate your sublimitee to extoll myne infirmitee.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4 1981

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