obtest
PRONUNCIATION:
(ob-TEST) 
MEANING:
verb tr.1. To invoke as a witness. 2. To implore or beseech.verb intr. 3. To protest. 4. To plead.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin obtestari (to implore, affirm, protest), from ob- (on, over), from testari (to bear witness or to make a will), from testis (witness). Ultimately from the Indo-European root trei- (three), which is also the source of three, sitar, trivia (from trivium, place where three roads meet), trivial, troika, trivet, testimony, testament, attest, testify (to be the third person: to bear witness), triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13), tercel (the male of a hawk), andtrammel (restraint, shackle, net). Earliest documented use: 1548. USAGE:
"But I obtest, dear readers, I know nothing of any previous correspondence."Peter Hawes; Turakina Beach, Village of Thieves?; Manawatu Standard (New Zealand); Jul 8, 2008.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)
