[de.test] vt [MF detester or L detestari; MF detester, fr. L detestari, lit., to curse while calling a deity to witness, fr. de- + testari to call to witness--more at testament] (ca. 1535) 1: to feel intense and often violent antipathy toward: loathe
2. obs: curse, denounce syn see hate -- de.test.er n