ATTESTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attested mean? 

• ATTESTED (adjective)
  The adjective ATTESTED has 1 sense:

1. established as genuine

  Familiarity information: ATTESTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTESTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Established as genuine

Synonyms:

attested; authenticated; documented

Similar:

echt; genuine (not fake or counterfeit)

 Context examples 

The signatures to this instrument purporting to be executed by Mr. W. and attested by Wilkins Micawber, are forgeries by—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Singletree, Darnley & Co. attested that miracle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The sailors must have learned whatever project was on hand, and the vim and snap they put into their work attested their enthusiasm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In this terrible agitation of mind, I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world; where I was able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand, and perform those other actions, which will be recorded for ever in the chronicles of that empire, while posterity shall hardly believe them, although attested by millions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Gathering my mantle about me, and sheltering my hands in my muff, I did not feel the cold, though it froze keenly; as was attested by a sheet of ice covering the causeway, where a little brooklet, now congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have, in my possession, in his hand and pocket-book, several similar imitations of Mr. W.'s signature, here and there defaced by fire, but legible to anyone. I never attested any such document. And I have the document itself, in my possession. Uriah Heep, with a start, took out of his pocket a bunch of keys, and opened a certain drawer; then, suddenly bethought himself of what he was about, and turned again towards us, without looking in it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Sunday evening was spent in repeating, by heart, the Church Catechism, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew; and in listening to a long sermon, read by Miss Miller, whose irrepressible yawns attested her weariness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)