Crossword clues for attestation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attestation \At`tes*ta"tion\, n. [L. attestatio: cf. F. attestation.] The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French attestation and directly from Latin attestationem (nominative attestatio) "an attesting, testimony," noun of action from past participle stem of attestari "to prove, confirm" (see attest).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, authenticate, validation, verification, documentation. 2 A confirmation or authentication. 3 (context business finance English) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization. 4 (context linguistics of a language or word English) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
WordNet
n. noun.group:law,;c the action of bearing witness
the evidence by which something is attested
Wikipedia
Attestation may refer to:
- Attestation clause, verification of a document
- Various police oaths in the United Kingdom
- The process of validating the integrity of a computing device such as a server needed for trusted computing
- Attested language
- Testimony
Usage examples of "attestation".
We have no direct, explicit attestations to guide us, so I saved this problem for the end.
Johnson would not believe it, though we had the attestation of the gardener, who said, he had put in corks, where the river Manyfold sinks into the ground, and had catched them in a net, placed before one of the openings where the water bursts out.
Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous postdiluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
We have no direct, explicit attestations to guide us, so I saved this problem for the end.
Our sole attestation of this important particle comes from a rather obscure source.
Iona has long enjoyed, without any very credible attestation, the honour of being reputed the cemetery of the Scottish Kings.
Other attestations come from a source that is more definitely Quenya or at least "Qenya": In LR:61, Herendil addresses his father Elendil with the words atarinya tye-melánë, "my father, I love thee", and Elendil answers, a yonya inyë tye-méla, "and I too, my son, I love thee".
Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
The document, addressed To Whom it may concern, declared that whichever of its signatories proved to be the Grand Tutor, He authorized the entry of the other into WESCAC's Belly for the purpose of attesting His authenticity, and was fully and exclusively accountable for the consequences of such attestation.
For these institutions are either the work of men or of demons,-not of those whom they call good demons, but, to speak more plainly, of unclean, and, without controversy, malign spirits, who with wonderful slyness and secretness suggest to the thoughts of the impious, and sometimes openly present to their understandings, noxious opinions, by which the human mind grows more and more foolish, and becomes unable to adapt itself to and abide in the immutable and eternal truth, and seek to confirm these opinions by every kind of fallacious attestation in their power.