Assert and Testify

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Give testimony in a court of law.
  • synonyms: attest, take the stand, bear witness
• Provide evidence for.
  • usage: "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
  • synonyms: bear witness, prove, evidence, show

• (adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
• (v.i.) To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.
• (v.t.) To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny.
• (v.i.) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.
• (v.i.) To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against.
• (v.t.) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.