verb
definition
To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.
definition
To make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith.
Examples of testifying in a Sentence
Locke had treated ideas as testifying, to the existence of matter.
Among the objects found on this site were documents testifying to the name of the locality and furnishing materials for fixing the date.
The frequent convocations of military assemblies, far from testifying to political liberty, was simply a means of communicating the emperors commands to the various feudal groups.
These Tertiary deposits are characterized by a rich fauna; fully developed leaves of poplars, numerous fruits of the mammoth tree, needles of several conifers, &c., being found in them, thus testifying to a climate once very much warmer.
Hull, testifying the Receipt thereof, shall be a sufficient Discharge in that Behalf.
John Travolta is testifying, along with a reported 14 other witnesses, in the extortion case involving the death of his young son Jett.
He also needs to present evidence that doesn't reveal his powers; picture a cop on the stand testifying that he heard the incriminating phone call from outside the house and across the street!
Wasn't there some law that prevented a wife from testifying against her husband?
President Milosevic finished the cross-examination of the secret witness testifying under the pseudonym of C-47.
They were Fitzgerald's papa's and he killed Billy to stop him from testifying!
The Book of the Spiritual Exercises was not written at Manresa, although there is in that place an inscription testifying to the supposed fact.
The Domesday Survey, besides testifying to the agricultural activity of the country, mentions over one hundred salt-works and numerous valuable fisheries, vines at Chart Sutton and Leeds, and cheese at Milton.
Like Hamilton, Mansel maintained the purely formal character of logic, the duality of consciousness as testifying to both self and the external world, and the limitation of knowledge to the finite and "conditioned."
They poured balsam on the sepulchre of the saint, washed it with their tears, and covered it with their kisses, in the belief that they were thus assuring themselves of his intercession or testifying their gratitude for his assistance.
A Board of Arbitration (1895) has authority to make and publish investigations of all facts relating to strikes and lock-outs, to issue subpoenas for the attendance and testifying of witnesses, and "to adjust strikes or lock-outs by mediation or conciliation, without a formal submission to arbitration."