test (n.)
- analysis
- armor
- assay
- audit
- audition
- barometer
- biopsy
- bout
- canon
- check
- chitin
- contest
- cortex
- criterion
- crucible
- degree
- derby
- determination
- diagnosis
- electrocardiography
- electromyography
- elytron
- encounter
- engagement
- episperm
- essay
- evaluation
- exam
- examen
- examination
- experiment
- experimentation
- fight
- final
- game
- games
- gauge
- go
- gymkhana
- hearing
- heuristic
- interview
- investigation
- joust
- lorica
- mammography
- match
- matching
- measure
- meet
- meeting
- midterm
- model
- norm
- oral
- ordeal
- parameter
- pattern
- pericarp
- pilot
- plate
- prelim
- probation
- probe
- proof
- proving
- pump
- quantity
- query
- question
- quiz
- rally
- reading
- readout
- research
- rule
- sample
- scale
- scute
- shell
- shield
- smear
- standard
- study
- taste
- testa
- testing
- tilt
- touchstone
- tournament
- tourney
- trial
- tripos
- try
- type
- urinalysis
- value
- verification
- viva
- yardstick
test (v.)
- armor
- assay
- assess
- audit
- audition
- bout
- catechize
- check
- collate
- confirm
- contest
- cross-check
- demonstrate
- double-check
- encounter
- essay
- evaluate
- examine
- experiment
- fight
- game
- gauge
- go
- honors
- interrogate
- interview
- joust
- match
- measure
- meet
- model
- pattern
- pilot
- plate
- probe
- proof
- prove
- pump
- query
- question
- quiz
- rally
- research
- rule
- sample
- scale
- shell
- shield
- smear
- study
- substantiate
- taste
- tilt
- tourney
- try
- type
- validate
- value
- verify
test (adv.)
test (adj.)
Bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word; which madness
Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.
And took for truth the test of ridicule.
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
