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Definition of Obtests
1. obtest [v] - See also: obtest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtests
Literary usage of Obtests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. ... Pope's The Iliad of Homer, Book I, VI, XXII, and XXIV. by Homer (1898)
"Then wept the sage ; He strikes his rev'rend head, now white with age ; He lifts
his wither'd arms ; obtests the skies ; He calls his much-lov'd sou with ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"No penitential orisons arise ; Nay, he obtests the justice of the skies. Not for
his guilt, for sentenc'd life he moan? ; His chains rough-clanking to ..."
3. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... or any way assist him: and declares all other princes absolved from any
confederacies made, or to be made, with him ; and earnestly obtests the emperor ..."
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