vouch

1. (transitive)Examples: "Nor need I ſpeak my Deeds, for thoſe you ſee, The Sun and Day are Witneſſes for me. Let him who fights unſeen, relate his own, And vouch the ſilent Stars, and conſcious Moon."transitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "But the most catholike and renoumed doctours of Christes religion in the corroboration of their argumentes and sentences, do alledge the same histories and vouche (as I mought say) to their ayde the autoritie of the writars."; "[F]or more credit to vvhich aſſertion hee vouched ſundry books, and acts, […]"; "Pray tell us where your moderate (for great ones you acknowledg to do harm, and to be uſeleſs) Penalties have been uſed, with ſuch Succeſs, that we may be paſt doubt too. If you can ſhew no ſuch place, do you not vouch Experience where you have none?"Synonyms: obtesttransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "Nay tis moſt credible, we heere receiue it, A certaintie vouch'd from our Coſin Auſtria, […]"; "Deliuer them this Paper: hauing read it, Bid them repayre to th' Market place, where I Euen in theirs, and in the Commons eares Will vouch the truth of it."; "[T]hey have made him aſham'd firſt to Vouch the Truth of the Relation, and afterwards even to Credit it."Synonyms: attest, avouch, certifytransitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "If a Man ſucceeds in any Attempt, though undertook with never ſo much Folly and Raſhneſs, his Succeſs ſhall vouch him a Politician; and good Luck ſhall paſs for deep Contrivance: […]"transitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "[M]ee damp horror chil'd At ſuch bold words voucht with a deed ſo bold: […]"transitive

6. (transitive)Examples: "Our Maſter Mars Haſt vouch'd his Oracle, and to Arcite gave The grace of the Contention: So the Deities Have ſhewd due juſtice: […]"Synonyms: vouchsafearchaictransitive