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Test
TEST, n. [L. testa, an earthen pot.]
1. In metallurgy, a large cupel, or a vessel in the nature of a cupel, formed of wood ashes and finely powdered brick dust, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement.
2. Trial; examination by the cupel; hence, any critical trial and examination.
Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune.
Like purest gold--
3. Means of trial.
Each test and every light her muse will bear.
4. That with which any thing is compared for proof of its genuineness; a standard.
--Life, force and beauty must of all impart,
At once the source, the end and test of art.
5. Discriminative characteristic; standard.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
6. Judgment; distinction.
Who would excel, when few can make a test
Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
7. In chimistry, a substance employed to detect any unknown constituent of a compound, by causing it to exhibit some known property. Thus ammonia is a test of copper, because it strikes a blue color with that metal, by which a minute quantity of it can be discovered when in combination with other substances.
TEST, n. [L. testis, a witness, properly one that affirms.]
In England, an oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, are obliged to take within six months after their admission. They were formerly obliged also to receive the sacrament, according to the usage of the church of England. These requisitions are made by Stat. 25 Charles II. which is called the test act. The test of 7 Jac.1. was removed in 1753.
TEST, v.t. To compare with a standard; to try; to prove the truth or genuineness of any thing by experiment or by some fixed principle or standard; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
The true way of testing its character, is to suppose it [the system] will be persevered in.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
To test this position--
In order to test the correctness of this system--
This expedient has been already tested.
1. To attest and date; as a writing tested on such a day.
2. In metallurgy, to refine gold or silver by means of lead, in a test, by the destruction, vitrification or scarification of all extraneous matter.
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Abandon Abintestate Absorbent Accretion Accuracy Act Address Admissible Adoption Affirmation Ambulant Amount Amphibial Anagogy Anathema Apocalypse Appeal Applause Apply Argonauta Assayed Attest Attestation Attested Authority Avouch Basanite Bear Believe Believing Bequeath Bequeathing Bible Bishop Blood Bog-ore Bribe Bribery Butterfly-shell Canonical Canticle Castrate Certificate Certify Certifying Chronicle Cockle Competent Comprehension Comprobate Compurgator Confirm Confirmation Constitution Contest Contestation Counter-evidence Credence Credible Credit Decline Dedication Degree Demon Deponent Depose Deposed Deposition Derogatory Detest Devil Devise Disallow Documental Dowcets Dramatize Ear-witness Ecclesiastes Evasion Evidence Examination Except Executor Executress Exhort Exodus Faith Fallibility False Falsely Force From Genesis Graciously Hagiography Hearing Heptateuch History Holograph Holographiic Honor Honorable Implicitly Inadmissible Inapplicable Incapacity Incline Incompetence Incompetent Incorrectly Incumbency Inofficious Intestable Intestate Intuitive Irrelevancy Irrelevant Lapsed Law Legacy Legal Legator Leviticus Lord Luculent Manifest Mina Misstatement Mollusca Mouth Nuncupative Nuncupatory Oblige Obtest Office Open Oral Orthodoxy Ostracism Out Over Oyster Paraphrase Pearl Pentateuch Policy Positive Positively Prefigure Prerogative-court Press Probate Proof Protest Prove Proverb Psalm Put Recital Refutation Refute Rejoicing Relevant Reliance Republication Rest Result Retain Retainer Revelation Revoke Righteous Sacred Salute Sanction Sarcocele Say Scripture Scrotum Scrutiny Semi-castrate Semi-castration Semi-proof Septuagint Seventy Severe Severity Shed Shell Shell-fish Show Spermatocele Stereotype Stone Stress Study Subject Submissive Support Sure Surety Surrogate Sustain Swig Tellinite Test Testable Testaceography Testaceology Testalogy Testament Testamentary Testate Testation Testator Tested Testicle Testiculate Testification Testified Testifier Testify Testifying Testily Testimonial Testimony Testiness Testing Testoon Testudinated Testy Tettish That Tortoise Touch Touchstone Translate Triable Trial Trier Try Trying Unbelief Unconfirmed Underwrite Unexceptionable Unimpeachable Unimpeached Unsuspicious Untested Unweighed Unwitnessed Valance Variety Venerable Verbal Verse Version Vested Vouch Will Willed Witness Witnessed Witnessing Worm Writ
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