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A challenge, trial.

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.

A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

To challenge.

Example: Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

Example: to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument

(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).

A witness.

To attest (a document) legally, and date it.

To make a testament, or will.

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