attested
IPA: ʌtˈɛstɪd
adjective
- Proven; shown to be true with evidence.
- Supported with testimony.
- Certified as good, correct, or pure.
- (linguistics) Of words or languages, proven to have existed by records.
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Examples of "attested" in Sentences
- This analysis is more optimal since if we think of this as a game of cards, two attested words and a dis legomenon i.e. a word attested only twice beats two hapaxes any day.
- One particular word, slicaχem, at the end of line 4 can be a headache for us decrypters because it's an unnerving hapax ie. a word attested only once in all known texts of a language.
- Likewise, in almost all uses of the word attested, Etruscan Rasna is declined **as a noun** and is **not** behaving as an adjective which remains undeclined according to known Etruscan grammar.
- I've found the name attested as Apaiatrus [TLE 122], Apiatrus [TLE 122] and Apatrual [TLE 136], all in the genitive, but the common "earliest" form I give for this entry, Apiatru, is a subjective guess.
- This remote, and perhaps imaginary, danger was averted by the submission of the Sultan of Egypt, the honors of the prayer and the coin attested at Cairo the supremacy of Timur; and a rare gift of a giraffe, or camelopard, and nine ostriches, represented at
- This remote, and perhaps imaginary, danger was averted by the submission of the sultan of Egypt: the honors of the prayer and the coin attested at Cairo the supremacy of Timour; and a rare gift of a _giraffe_, or camelopard, and nine ostriches, represented at Samarcand the tribute of the African world.
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