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Definition of Obtested
1. obtest [v] - See also: obtest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtested
Literary usage of Obtested
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1876)
"... and being again obtested to tell who was ye father of the child she brought
forth, she declares still that it has no other father than John Craufurd of ..."
2. An Abridgement of the Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of by Church of Scotland General Assembly, Robert Gillan (1821)
"Ass. 1713, are renewed; and all ministers and people are seriously obtested to
lay to heart the important duties therein recommended, and that there be no ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"In this dilemma I turned to one of my three friends, a gentleman whom I knew to
possess an enviable flow of silver speech, and obtested him, by whatever ho ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and Veto came upon it, Honorable Members, I observe, gathered passionately
round the vetoing Brother; conjured, obtested, menaced, wept, prayed; and, ..."
5. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"... from a state of Arcadian felicity—from a condition of unparalleled prosperity—to
the lowest depth of misery and ruin. And here Mr. B. obtested and be- ..."
6. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... md veto came upon it, Honourable Members, I observe, gathered passionately
round the vetoing Brother; conjured, obtested, menaced, wept, prayed; and, ..."
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