1. (n.) A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.

2. (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.

3. (n.) Open attestation; profession.

4. (n.) Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.

5. (n.) The two tables of the law.

6. (n.) Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacred Scriptures.

7. (v. t.) To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony.

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