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单词 as witness
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as witness
b. Introducing a name, designation, phrase, or clause denoting a person or thing that furnishes evidence of the fact or exemplifies the statement. Also as witness, and, in early use, †witness on. (After Latin teste…, French témoin…)
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c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 277 Witnesse [L. testis est] Tyburces and Cecilies shrifte.
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 95 Pardee we wommen konne no thyng hele, Witnesse on Myda, wol ye heere the tale.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 528 Wytnesse on Wycliff þat warned hem wiþ trewþe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11788 Bot we ne wrick þe wisliker, þe wark of him sua mai we dred, Als wittnes on vr eldres dede.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 366 Ioyntly to her Mercurius tooke hys see As came to hys course—wytnesse the zodyak.
1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia 281 b The sweete wittie soule of Ouid liues in mellifluous..Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis.
1616 A. Champney Treat. Vocation Bishops 24 The wisest, and greatest clarkes haue erred, as witnesse the laps of Tertullian, Origen, and Lucifer.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xv. 192 Nature oftentimes recompenceth deform'd bodies with excellent wits. Witnesse Æsop.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 503 When Night Darkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons of Belial... Witness the Streets of Sodom. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 906 Dal. In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse... Sam. For want of words no doubt, or lack of breath, Witness when I was worried with thy peals.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 713 And novels (witness ev'ry month's review) Belie their name, and offer nothing new.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ii. 39 The strange barbarous French, which she and many other fine ladies of that time—witness Her Grace of Portsmouth—employed.
1868 T. H. Key Philol. Ess. 249 What progress is visible there is chiefly due to the energy of German, not French, scholarship, as witness the valuable collection of Greek authors that has proceeded from the press of Didot.
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