testi-, test- +
(Latin: a witness, one who stands by; testicle, one of the two oval male gonads supported in the scrotum by its tissues and suspended by the spermatic cord)
Protestant
1. A member or adherent of any denomination of the Western Christian church that rejects papal authority and some fundamental Roman Catholic doctrines, and who believes in the justification by faith.
2. Any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
2. An adherent of any of those Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group descended from them.
protestant
Anyone who makes a protest against some action.
Protestantism
1. A Christian religious movement originating in the 16th century from Martin Luther's attack on Roman Catholic doctrine.
It grew to encompass many churches and denominations denying papal authority and believing in justification and salvation by faith.
2. The Protestant churches considered as a whole and who are adherents to Protestant beliefs.
protestation
1. A strong or firm declaration that something is true or false.
2. The act of complaining or objecting; the act of expressing strong disapproval of or disagreement with something.
3. A statement expressing strong disapproval of or disagreement with something.
protester
1. Someone who participates in a public display of group feeling.
2. A person who dissents from some established policy.
protester
Someone who uses publicity and forcefulness to make their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy.
Such protesters may undertake direct actions to attempt to directly enact desired changes themselves.
protestingly
1. In a protesting manner.
2. An expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent; often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or to avoid.
recusatio testis
Refusal of testimony.
In civil law, rejection of a witness, on the grounds of incompetency.
testalgia
Pain in a testicle or the testicles.
testament
1. A formal statement or speech outlining beliefs.
2. In law, an old word for a legal will, used most often in the phrase "last will and testament".
testamentary
1. Relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament.
2. Bequeathed or set out in a will.
3. Relating to a legal will.
testamur
English university certificate; from Latin testamur, "we attest, testify"; from testari; so called from the word testamur used in the text of the certificate.
testate
Someone who has made a legally valid will.
testator
Someone, especially a man, who has made a legally valid will.
testatrix
A woman who has made a legally valid will.