Citations:obtestate
English citations of obtestate
- 2000, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Classic Books Company, →ISBN, page 119:
- ... I obtestate your clemencie , to inuigilate thus muche for me , accordyng to my confidence , and as you knowe my condigne merites for suche a compendious liuyng . But now a relinguishe to fatigate your inteligence , with any more […]
- 2002 March 28, David Crystal, The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
- ... I obtestate [beseech] your clemencie, to inuigilate [take pains] thus muche for me, accordyng to my confidence, and as you know my condigne merites, for suche a compendious [profitable] liuyng. But now I relinquishe [cease] to fatigate […]
- 1901, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Catalogue of Irish MSS., page 19:
- ... I obtestate , before you enter profoundly into the perusall of this booke , that you be indefi- ciently possessed by assurance of HEBER's refulgent antecedency and priority in antiquity of life and death : wittnes the previous […]