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| Prove |
To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure. |
v. t. |
| Prove |
To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence. |
v. t. |
| Prove |
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will. |
v. t. |
| Prove |
To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer. |
v. t. |
| Prove |
To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved. |
v. t. |
| Prove |
To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page. |
v. t. |
| Prove |
To make trial; to essay. |
v. i. |
| Prove |
To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false. |
v. i. |
| Prove |
To succeed; to turn out as expected. |
v. i. |
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| Approved |
of Approve |
imp. & p. p. |
| Approve |
To show to be real or true; to prove. |
v. t. |
| Approve |
To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. |
v. t. |
| Approve |
To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial. |
v. t. |
| Approve |
To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration. |
v. t. |
| Approve |
To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance. |
v. t. |
| Approve |
To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor. |
v. t. |
| Approvedly |
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. |
adv. |
| Approvement |
Approbation. |
n. |
| Approvement |
a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's [or queen's] evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. |
n. |
| Approvement |
Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. |
n. |
| Approver |
One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial. |
n. |
| Approver |
An informer; an accuser. |
n. |
| Approver |
One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2. |
n. |
| Approver |
A bailiff or steward; an agent. |
v. t. |
| Misimprove |
To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc. |
v. t. |
| Misimprovement |
Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose. |
n. |
| Provessel |
Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian. |
a. |
| Proved |
of Prove |
imp. & p. p. |
| Provect |
Carried forward; advanced. |
a. |
| Provection |
A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename. |
n. |
| Proveditor |
One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. |
n. |
| Provedore |
A proveditor; a purveyor. |
n. |
| Proven |
Proved. |
p. p. / a. |
| Proven/al |
Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants. |
a. |
| Proven/al |
A native or inhabitant of Provence in France. |
n. |
| Proven/al |
The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc. |
n. |
| Provence rose |
The cabbage rose [Rosa centifolia]. |
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| Provence rose |
A name of many kinds of roses which are hybrids of Rosa centifolia and R. Gallica. |
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| Provencial |
Of or pertaining to Provence in France. |
a. |
| Provend |
See Provand. |
n. |
