Each test every light her muse will bear.
Dryden.
4. That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a
touchstone; a standard.
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and
end, and test of art.
Pope.
5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of
admission or exclusion.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
Dryden.