2012_05_10 Obtest v. To protest, beseech 以示抗議, 懇求。

Word of the Day for Thursday, May 10, 2012
obtest \ob-TEST\, verb:
1. To supplicate earnestly; beseech.
2. To invoke as witness.
3. To protest.
4. To make supplication; beseech.
I constrain, adjure, obtest and strongly command you.
 -- Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
And whosoever she be, even with the form of words which to miserable wretches is granted most exaudible, I pray, and do with those prayers most heartily obtest, which are in the ears of the hearers of them most effectual, that she may never taste of such bitter miseries.
 -- Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorous Fiametta
Obtest comes from the Latin roots ob-, a prefix meaning "toward", and the root test, meaning "witness."
1。認真哀告;懇求。
2。要調用作為證人。
3。以示抗議。
4。為了使懇求，懇求。

我約束，指著obtest和強烈吩咐你的。
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，蓋伊Mannering

和凡她甚至可憐的壞蛋被授予最exaudible單詞的形式，是，我祈禱，並與最衷心的祈禱obtest，這是他們最有效的聽眾的耳朵，她可能永遠不會嚐到做這種慘痛的苦難。
- 喬萬尼薄伽丘，Fiametta風情

obtest來自拉丁根OB，前綴的意義“走向”，並根檢驗，意思是“證人”。

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